Redscat wrote:
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Does that include the hundreds and thousand of slaves transported from African nations to toil in the cotton and sugar plantations of the new world and other regions?
LOL you really have swallowed the left wing revised history of the world hook line and sinker.
Look up the Barbary slave trade to find just how daft this constant reference to Britain’s evil past is.
The Barbary coast pirates terrorised Europe up until the 19th century, including the west coast of England and Wales. In that time they sold more people, nearly all white, into slavery than the British, Spanish and French combined. Of course the victims being mainly white takes away the socialist street cred I’m afraid but please don’t let the truth get in the way of that, nobody else does.
So although it’s no excuse for the part we played, the fact is slavery was a worldwide trade and its victims were very far from all being black or it’s perpetrators white. There is simply no need for this national self loathing, just because you’ve seen it on the TV and silver screen don’t make it true.
What should impress you more but won’t because it spoils the hard done by narrative is that the first nation to outlaw the slave trade was, drum roll, Great Britain. God that must stick in your craw. Look up William Wilberforce (think that’s how you spell it), you’ll like him.
Do you know why the Royal Navy became the biggest in the world? Not as is often thought to defend trade in the empire but to destroy the slave trade and totally eradicate the truly evil Muslim run North African slave trade. It’s a fact, I don’t make it up, it’s how it was. History told truthfully has a nasty way of upsetting popular opinion.
You really need to look deeper than the rubbish you’ve been indoctrinated in.
I’ve no flag to fly politically I just like the truth. I don’t blame you for falling for it, the propaganda and misinformation peddled on this subject since the sixties is staggering. Yet you really don’t have to dig deep to find out how twisted the story has become.
Wikipedia despite being constantly bagged is an excellent starting point, it’s all there.
Really poor effort Redscat.