American Reacts to The British Crusade Against Slavery 

It is worth noting that we, the British tax payer, finally finished paying for this in 2013.

2015 babes, kind regards

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The Barbary Africans (Muslims) were raiding for white slaves 500 years before the transatlantic slave trade,for galley slaves white men are an inch taller on average and have significantly greater upper body strength than black Africans, obviously slavers favoured the white men they chained them naked to a plank until they died shit pee ate sitting on that bench.. another fav of sub Saharan and Muslim rich people were pre pubescent white boys and white girls as rape toys.. often traded for black slaves.. the raid on Vienna Austria netted 80,000 white slaves.. aprox 40% were the much treasured African love of white pre pubescent children to tear their little bodies apart.. or ask the Pygmy’s there were 7 million until the Bantu migration .. now only 250,000 left alive in the Congo kept as pets by black Africans, in times of food scarcity they are used as a meat source… (you didn’t think Belgians were that evil they simply enjoyed tying black Congolese to trees and competed to see whom could chop them from neck to crotch for no other reason than they were black? Turns out the Belgians took the slaughter and CANNIBALISM of Pygmy men women and children for food an evil that required the death penalty.

It was not our Government who sold slaves in fact we never but it was Pirates who transported them for a price to the Americas it was African tribes who sold them it was The Royal Navy who stopped the transporting of slaves from Africa to the Americas by arresting the Purates and freeing those slaves they had on board there ships, as far as Frankie Boyle goes he knows nothing about history he has jumped on the Bandwagon as all woke Comedians seem to have done as they don’t want to be cancelled in Fact the Portuguese and the Dutch were a 100 times worse than anyone, oh Africans and the Barbary coast were coming up to the British waters and raiding villages in Cornwall and Devon raping and pillaging and taking woman and children and men back to Africa and sold as slaves long before Britain had a Navy they did that when the Romans left Briton

Obviously you don't know anything about your ancestors history to come up with a comment like that.

@@DesL488 the word "obviously" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there my friend 😉 All about opinions I suppose 👍

@@craignhs5932 it's only heavy lifting for the ignorant. It all depends on whether your history is based on facts, or merely opinion. The fact is that the British Empire wasn't based on the ideal of the playing fields of Eton. It wasn't all tea, crumpets and tiffin in the afternoon. It was based on theft, murder, subjugation, divide and conquer, exploitation, the effects of which are still being played out today. And as far as we descendants of slavery are concerned, our total loss of indentity, language and culture. Yes you can compare slavery throughout history in other countries and you can pat yourself on the back for your ancestors ending their slave trade, but you have to realise that before the 1830's, a lot of shit happened due to slavery and the slave trade.

@@DesL488 You seem more concerned about the British Empire than you do about the actual slavery which is strange. Africans enslaved Africans long before Europeans came on the scene. I don't hold you personally responsible for that. Muslims traded Europeans and Africans long before the British Empire and I don't hold Muslims of today responsible for that. Heck the Romans and the Vikings traded native Brits but I don't blame Luigi or Olaf. When slavery was the norm (it still is in some places today) British companies traded like anyone else. The facts remain that it was the British govt that ended slavery and my ancestors both paid for and died doing it. The same ancestors who were also responsible for the industrial revolution which has led to you having most of the things you take for granted today. We can all find reasons to criticize if we take a myopic view on things. As with most things in life however, it's the bigger picture which gives the most accurate view 👍

Yet countries like Bermuda for example want more expatrations (I cant spell) for Britains involvement in the slave trade. Havent we paid enough already? And why does everyone seem to blame the British for the trading of slaves? We didn't invent slavery, and yes at first there was participation into the trade from Africa to the Americas but we soon knew it was wrong and had to be stopped and we were the only nation in the world that stood up to it!

@@CrazyInWeston we've done more than enough, they can fuck off as I'm concerned. The fact is, it's just a scrounging tactic and they are simply racists using the slave trade as a weapon to try and beat the races they hate into submission with. I'm not falling for it and I have no time, nor money for racists, I don't care where they're from or what colour they are, they're barking up the wrong tree. Lol

Yes paid for from subsequent generations taxes

We paid it off 12 years ago

@@madyottoyotto3055 7 years ago. 2015. It took nearly 200 yrs of repayments with interest by British citizens to ex slave owners n give profit back to bank of England. A circle of pure greed.

Britain lost about 2000 Brave Naval Personnel fighting the slave trade.

Although I've never thought anything negative about Great Britain, I have to admit that I was ignorant about this amazing piece of history. I was never taught this, ever. It's wrong and I wish I knew why it's not taught. This is just as important as Dr. Martin Luther King but it's not celebrated.

It was by one vote, and according to my MP, even that was thought to be a mistake. The fact we bought slaves from people willing to sell them and then ship them to other countries to resell them again. Doesn't make anyone look good. Whether African, Eurooean or American. But those were the times and without a time machine we can't change it.

@@SimplySavageReactions please look into some of the videos from Thomas Sowell regarding this topic. He's an African American man who details the British ending of the slave trade with intense accuracy! 🙏❤️

@@SimplySavageReactions: It should be remembered our nearest neighbours and fellow countrymen in Ireland were kept as near serfs, and driven abroad by want and hunger for the greater part of four hundred years.

@@donquixote3927 it should be remembered nearly all plebs were kept as serfs, no matter where they lived. An Irish aristocracy existed too, as did an African aristocracy.

An old Geordie here. And I’m proud to be British as well. Well said my friend. x

@@loopyloo788 Hi Loopy Loo. no matter where anybody s is born should never be a shamed of where they come from. hope you are well and healthy. b safe take care my friend. from 🇬🇧👍 an old cockney gal

Please remove the part about paying for freed slaves, only the owners received compensation.

@@DesL488 that's how law worked, and still works in some degree today. Use your fucking brain for a moment, please. If something/someone is legally owned, it would need to be purchased/have its former owner compensated and a record made in order to free them.. if the slave owners were not compensated in some token way, by law, they would remain the legal owner and possibly have even been able to make a case for theft of their property otherwise.. how the fuck can you be so mindless as to see a nation spending unfathomable amounts of money, taking decades upon decades UPON DECADES to pay back, simply to effectively throw that money in the air by releasing that purchase on nothing more than moral principal as a bad thing?? Please explain your warped logic in a way that makes sense. If you want compensation, go to the source! The people who sold your ancestors, you know, YOUR OWN PEOPLE WHO SOLD YOU! Scrounge from the trader not the customer! THINK ABOUT IT... Your hatred is pointed entirely in the wrong direction my friend.

@@DesL488 paying for freed slaves is completely accurate, compensation is most definitely a form of payment. Had the claim instead been paying slaves after they were freed, which would have been the morally correct thing to do in my opinion, then it would have been a false claim. It’s strange how Britain, USA and the like now advise to never negotiate with terrorists because paying a penny would ultimately encourage such.

@@ristart777 thanks for clearing that up!

@@ristart777 Aside from the strange analogy, you serious think that neither the UK, or US have never negotiated with terrorist. If you do, then I have a bridge that i want to sell you. The former slave owners would not have become destitute and penniless, after the people had their freedom restored, the would still have made their money! The argument is that the former slaves should have been compensated for their labour during their time as chattel. That would have been the moral, ethical and equitable thing to do.

*ostensibly

English pride - we have our own anthems, and some of them are about surviving English colonialism

@@dexstewart2450 Stewart is a British (Scottish) surname. Kind of suggests that your family were colonisers, whereas the folks who remained in Britain, were not.

Rule Britannia has "Britons never will be slaves!" which is referenced by "freemen not slaves" in the Royal Navy March, Heart of Oak and the line "Her watchword is 'Justice' her password is 'Free',"

@@dexstewart2450 Glasgow second city of the empire. The Scots were over represented (population wise) in plantation owners, colonial staff, governors etc. Scots prospered greatly from the empire.

Americans have never been taught the real facts behind their war of independence. For instance one fact was that Britain at the time was pitting her army against two major superpowers, France and Spain. The Army of the 13 states was merely a second or 3rd string of a weak national guard. What the states should have done was rally around the flag in the time of Empire building. Slaving however in the Americas was too profitable. Surely the intellect of America must know that it had nothing to do with a tea tax, something so insignificant it could have been settled over a few beers. I’m beginning to think you’re more indoctrinated than Russians!!😂🤣😂😂🇬🇧🇺🇸

Yup, it's the great lie of the American Revolution: slave owners saw the tide changing and kicked off the entire movement when it was really a cover for exactly that.

That's very interesting, where did you find that information? I knew about the Somerset case but didn't realise or read about the repercussions of the the case and how it affected American history.

The English/British have done damage all over the world for centuries. You had the largest and longest running empire in the history of the world. How do you think you get an empire...by handing out sweeties? England/Britain will forever be blamed for what it has done and until it hands back every inch of territory stolen for centuries. Hope you are proud. If you are proud of such a terrible history then that means you are also to blame and should be ashamed.

No. What should be taught is England/Britains involvement in slavery for centuries.

I,m 64 years old and I was taught in history about our countries involvement in abolishing the slave trade. By the time my son went to school it wasn’t gone into in depth so I made a point of informing him….not sure why it isn’t taught in schools now.

@@cooldaddy2877 Well, someone is morally superior, aren't they. You do realise there are 27 million slaves in the world today, right? About 10 million slaves were involved in the Atlantic slave trade. What are you and your virtue signaling loser mates doing about that? What global online campaign's have you created? What awareness have you spread? Jack shit. Maybe we should teach about your laziness and apathy compared to the British in schools, hey? You are the very thing you hate, and it's funny that you don't see it.

@@Hippydays1959 It isn't taught now because it doesn't suit the lefty agendas of those otherwise obliged to teach it.

​@@Hippydays1959so was I, and I am 71.We had a well rounded education I think 😊😊

I wish I could remember the title of the video but I saw a TED talk that basically traced racism as we know it back to the slave trade as 'justification' for enslaving Black Africans because they weren't white and therefore were considered less than human. An invention of one man in the seventeenth century that is the root of so much evil and injustice in the world today.

Historical education in other countries seems to be woeful. I had a big row with a Spanish man who flatly refused to accept that the Conquistadors did anything harmful to the native South Americans! He claimed they went over there with love in their hearts, taught the natives about the holy Roman church and made trade deals 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🙄

It dates back to practically the dawn of human history, when we first domesticated those wolves that wouldn't immediately try and rip your face off and knowing it or not started allowing those to breed that were more chill around humans, raising them by hand to be used to us and all those things we still do with puppies till this day.

@@StonedDragons hello Steve its widely believe that the first wolves were self domesticated realising that life would,d be easier living along side those hairless apes and we would have took over from there

@@carlburton2705 That in no way contradicts what I said, though the self-domestication part is still very much up for debate. Either way it was the less aggressive wolves that would stick around, or be allowed to for that matter and thus would be allowed to breed and eventually become todays domestic dogs.

@@carlburton2705 Hi, I'm a bioveterinary science student and I've done studies on the domestication of what we now know as the common domestic canine. It is not known the breed of wolf that was bred to create our domestic dogs however they were certainly not self domesticated, an animal that is self domestic is the common domestic cat. The first known "cat" was in the agricultural period when mice were attracted to human crops and the cats followed; the humans fed the cats to keep them around and scare away the rodents, this led to cats sticking around and breeding by themselves and humans kept them. Whereas dogs aren't self domesticated as humans kept them, housed them, and bred them specifically for behaviour as well as to keep them in a puppy like state. Hope this clarifies, here are some sources for this: Coren S, (2019). How much of dog behavior is linked to breed genetics? Retrieved from www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/canine-corner/201910/how-much-dog-behavior-is-linked-breed-genetics Rigterink A, Houpt K, 2014. Genetics of canine behavior: A review. World J Med Genet 2014; 4(3): 46-57. Retrieved from www.wjgnet.com/2220-3184/full/v4/i3/46.htm

@@heartless1866 away with you and your facts, and research, and authenticated sources. There’s no room on the internet for your sort 😂

The other great song from the Proms, too: 'Land of Hope and Glory Mother of the free How shall we extol theee Who are born of thee?'

but happy to make others slaves....what a joke.

@@Teverell "Mother of the free"...tell that to the empire you created. Utter rubbish.

Thank you, I will check that out.

Definitely worth watching, Thomas goes into great detail on the subject...a remarkable man..

Thomas Sowell is one of America’s greatest intellectuals and when he states facts he does mountains of research first as I’ve read books of his where 20% of the pages at the back of the book are just citing all his sources. His expertee’s is in economics but he’s so much more than that as his knowledge of history gained through his research is just about encyclopaedic! He is now 94 and his mind is still as sharp as a razor.

@@SimplySavageReactions Me too!!!

I want tax reparations for the money I’ve lost. Who do I sue? The kings of Benin? But seriously it annoys me that African Americans ask for money off Britain. Like we haven’t been paying it in tax for 180 years.

@@damedusa5107 they’re not even African and actual Africans hate black Americans!

You paid because you were involved in slavery for centuries....dont you get it?

@@cooldaddy2877 how far back do you want to go? Is there a limit?

@@cooldaddy2877 Incorrect. I've never owned a slave. I've never taken one into slavery. I've never sold one nor transported one. Nor has my father. Or his. Or HIS. OR HIS. Go back another, oh... three or four generations, just to be safe. I've still ended up paying for the freedom of others. The same goes for any other Brit. And many others of us still fight and work to free slaves: those in the British Military. But whether or not Britain was involved in slavery (which we were, no point in denying... but then so was everyone!), WE were the first to not only outlaw it, but enforce that upon everyone else. When Britain held the reins of world power, that is what we did with it: stop slavery. For everyone. Imposed on everyone. Politics be damned, and national pride of other nations be damned. We enforced it, and crippled other nation's economies doing so because they would not play ball. I'll wait until you point out which other nation decided to expend it's blood, sweat, and treasure on the dissolution of slavery before us, or even to our effect. I'll also wait while you find any evidence that the slavery we were involved in was any different to slavery practiced throughout history (it was certainly better than that practiced by the Muslim Caliphate - they castrated their male slaves so they wouldn't breed), which OTHERS did nothing to stop... until we started that ball rolling. Hell, the Americans ended up fighting a war with themselves over it (worst thing they did: it would have cost less in money, and with ZERO bad feelings for beating the southern states, no loss of life, etc, if they had done as the British Empire did: pay the slave owners to free their slaves and make slavery illegal at the same time) - but they only did so due to pressure and shame from the world's first superpower doing what they would not - end slavery. It must gall you, that simple fact, that there's something to be proud of in the old British Empire. You want us to feel shame for it, for once trading in slaves? Tell me: what nationality are you? I could then point out when YOUR ancestors kept and traded in them. Pointless doing so, but it seems to be your level. I feel no shame for what others did, for that helps no-one. I feel pride for what my nation did - what no other did before us. England had no slaves within it's borders for nearly 900 years - utterly unheard of. But we're the "big bad". No other nation ever had an empire. No other people ever conquered their neighbour. All tribes in Africa were all sunshine and rainbows, never thinking of taking slaves, til we got there. (sarcasm, just in case that went over your head) Oh, wait: we found existing slave trades in Africa when we got there, and the Portuguese got there before us, and found the same. (sigh) I'm off to drink some tea while you continue to vent your idiocy.

UK of GB & NI.

This was taught in school, certainly in my day at secondary school in the early 80s..

@@russbillington6291 Well im 35 and it was never taught in my school

@Dale obviously a change in the education system in the mid 90s...but I also remember in my home city of Manchester in 98 during the world cup Manchester black cabs were not allowed to fly the George Cross in case it offended someone, so not surprised they stopped teaching Britans involvement in stopping the slave trade...it is what it is I guess.

I do vaguely remember this from School days, it never really sank in then as I was not really interested in history when younger. 57 now so talking some years ago

@@GamingWithDaleUK I learnt this at school in Britain, in the 80,s. Sadly times have changed.

Couldn't agree more well researched there Also it's the very reason we started the British Empire Well between them and the Viking who never stopped attacking coastal communities

Baltimore in the USA was named after the village in Ireland which was decimated by African slave traders,nearly ever inhabitant was either taken away or fled never to return. This was in 1631 June 20th .... now it’s the day after Juneteenth, oh the irony🤦🏼‍♂️

I strongly recommend: "The Forgotten Slave Trade - The White European Slaves of Islam" by Simon Webb

Correct

Thanks so much. I try to be myself, even if I come off as an idiot sometimes lol. I do enjoy learning though so its ok I guess

There's a difference between colonialism and imperialism.

Suttee. It still goes on, sadly

Funny that. The British saw a woman being harmed and immediately reacted, yet it's western men that are the patriarchy, apparently.

And the wives were often multiple “women” sometimes under 10 years old

No, not from a country that was at the centre of the slave trade for centuries.

​@@cooldaddy2877 no it wasn't do your history

@@thuggie1 Yes it was. Even the British Parliament recognise that. It is you who needs to take off your blinkers, admit the many many many faults of your country.

@@cooldaddy2877 Who ended slavery? Britain, and it will always be Britain whether you like it or not, WE THE BRITISH ENDED SLAVERY, SUCK ON IT.

No it doesnt. If you think so then you agree with the British Empire which stole, raped, pillaged and killed untold thousands of people for centuries. Learn your history.

Yea I guess you're right. Thanks

Oh okay lol I was hoping it wasn't something like marrying animals!

@@SimplySavageReactions you nutter lol ...love your channel ...Tim.London.U.K

Basically farming.

@@SimplySavageReactions That only happens in certain areas of the UK.

@@eccehomer8182 lol same in the US

Oh lord. Don’t get me started on those two 😡

@@loopyloo788 😂🤣😂🤣

Ignorance.

@@brianshockledge3241 It's not ignorance. Britain has been the "Land of the free" for longer than anywhere else. If you can pull it and its values down the rest of the world will be easy.

@@eccehomer8182 Exactly my point the rest of the world are either clueless or choose to ignore Britain`s contribution to the world in which they live. The shite my grandchildren are indoctrinated with today is an absolute disgrace.

Because Britain raped, pillaged, stole and killed in so many countries. Britain had the largest empire the world has ever known. How do you think you get an empire?....by handing out sweeties. Grow up.

@@brianshockledge3241 No, through knowledge.

Comments like yours is what keeps me going, believing that this channel will be successful in time and it is literally because of people like you who support me. Hopefully I will be able to look back one day and know that all of the sleepless nights and countless hours working on this channel was worth it. I've been close to quitting so many times but you guys stop me from doing that and I'm so beyond grateful to have people like you that I am so proud to call friends.

@@SimplySavageReactions never let any form of self doubt stand in your way, i have every confidence in the channel and jn you to make it a success. My uni told me id be lucky to pass my degree with a 3rd and i ended up coming out 6 marks short of a 1st and a few years later my work was published in a magazine. Your hard work comes through in your videos, and i have enjoyed all your content and i will for time to come. I hope everyone is doing ok over there and all is well.

@@contemperis I absolutely love these comments Robert and couldn’t agree more about James and the channel!

@@scottishemmaa2457 Comments online these days are normally short, quite rediculous because we have all seen the internet is known, at least in my neck of the woods, as the place for idiots and cat pics. with so many people making reactionary videos where they are screaming and jumping around just to try and seem the outragious or overly shocked to generate views or clicks for more income it is refreshing to see someone truthfully showing how they feel. also my eldest son is called james xD

@@SimplySavageReactions There's a youtuber called 'Drachinifel' who covers naval history and he has a video on 'The West Africa Squadron' detailing the Royal Navies enforcement of the blockades of Africa, Brazil........well worth a watch. Subbed and good luck.

Is that a poem?

@@SimplySavageReactions Yes, though I misremembered the date. I believe it was from 1826, concerning the chimney climbing boys and other white labouring children (mostly orphans) that were sold to "industry", often sold to coal mines and factories. Recall _Oliver Twist_ "boy for sale", who was initially offered to a chimney master known for his cruelty before winding up with an undertaker where he was made to sleep in the cellar with the dead in their coffins. From memory, the poem goes (I may have missed a few lines), I'm young and cold and frightened oft When the dark flu I see With threats and (sticks?) forced up aloft Where nobody loves me My master beats me with a rope A cruel master he And I have neither friends nor hope" And nobody loves me. They loved the negro over the wave They strove to set him free And though I'm a little slave There's nobody loves me. If you want an online resource about child labour in Britain about the time of slavery, I'd suggest _spartacus school net._ (Sorry, but every time I give a link my posts never survive.)

I'm so glad that I've been enlightened to this truth. Tusk you for subscribing. I'm on a bit of a break right now reevaluating things but will be back soon

Please continue to be proud of your empire which enslaved people, raped them, pillaged them and killed them.....all over the world for centuries.

Well said 👍

You should feel ashamed if you are proud of your empire and all the evils it did.

@@cooldaddy2877 Every country has it's skeletons in the cupboard

@@MargaretUK But none moreso than Britain. History shows this.

@@cooldaddy2877 errmmmm.....Romans?

I totally agree, I’m a proud Brit i know we did some questionable things but we also did a lot of good just think how many still want to be in the commonwealth . We can’t put today’s standards on the past who knows in the future we may be held in the same distaste.

@@barrywood7322 Most countries in the commonwealth are poor countries who stay in it for easy trade. Britain spent centuries grinding those small countries into the ground and telling them they cant survive without their "English master". The sad fact that you had an empire kinda says it all.

`Out of England` meant that no one living in England should take another English person and sell him or her to be taken abroad

It was an action of unintended consequences that lead to ostracism of world slavery

England had an abolition movement from the mid 11th century, prior to William the Conqueror. Wulfstan Bishop of Worcester convinced Bristol port to stop cooperating with the Gael Norse slavers operating out of Dublin. Dublin was the largest slave market in western europe from the 5th to the 12th century, largely fed by English, Welsh and Scots captives. They traded from Iceland to Iran, and as far south as the north African states of Morocco, Tunis, Tripoli and Algiers. Wulfstan was joined in his campaign by Lanfranc, William's tutor who he made Archbishop of Canterbury, who also abhorred slavery. William made these fines so prohibitive for people to keep people as slaves and trade in slaves, that it helped suppress the status of slaves and finally in 1102 it was almost completely suppressed when the church condemned it. However, there was still the Gael Norse slave markets and raids and the occasional illegal trading. In 1171, Henry II went to Ireland after the King of Leinster appealed for help regaining Leinster. At this point he negotiated, at the Council of Armagh, for all English slaves held in the kingdoms on island of Irelandto be freed.

My children are the first generation in six to eight who will not have paid part of the debts incurred by the UK treasury in freeing slaves through their taxes, from my great great great great great grandparents (or knock off one or two greats for some branches of the family tree) to the end of my working life.

You see this is what I'm talking about. You guys teach me so much. There's been a handful of people that insult me for being a stupid American but I can't help that I was never taught this stuff. I'm not a genius by no means, but I'd like to think that i have average intelligence. I love learning. If you know everything then you won't be receptive to learning new things so I try to learn as much as I can. You guys have been so amazing, educating me. I now know what he meant when he said that the word slave comes from slav meaning Slavic people thanks to you.

@@SimplySavageReactions Oh I missed the part where he said it in the video! 😂 Well at least I expanded on it anyway!

Maybe because the bad things greatly outweigh any good things?

Every empire in history had its bad points, you can't argue about that. However the British empire actually did so much good to the world. It ended slavery (by law we all know illegalities still happen even today, but the point is its by law slavery is now illegal everywhere.) Britain brought education and democracy to many countries that were before under dictatorship rule, plus Britain didn't even rule its territories by force, we set up local assemblies so that the countries were ruled by democracy. We also invented a lot of stuff with the industrial revolution and therefore literally modernised most of the globe! If someone ever says that the British empire was bad I'll say every empire had its bad points but the British empire really did do more good than harm. Of former empires, only ex British ones have a more success rate in having a good standard of life and economy. Some countries even regret leaving the empire at all because their lands fell back into dictatorships like Yemen for example. Under British rule they had peace, now its a civil war torn place.

If it had been any of the others France, Spain, etc. it would of been a different outcome.

@@michaelbailey8729 If Henry viii hadn't for his own reasons or not, ended catholic rule over us.. History would most probably have been very different. The Usa may never have happened, perhaps French/Spanish catholic empires, instead of English/British being globally dominant. Imagine the world run by the then very harsh catholic church? The church endorsed slavery. If it weren't for Britain's vast empire & power, the slave trade may have gone on for much longer & black people suffering for many more years. It is a great thing England/Britain stood up to the catholic church all those hundreds of years ago, otherwise our freedoms today would never have happened. 🇬🇧

@@Paul-hl8yg thats pretty much where I'm coming from mate. They were far more treacherous than us. Thats not to say weve not done some stupid things like trying to re establish the French and Dutch in Indo China after WW2 for a more recent example. Churchill stood up to Hitler alright but beyond that his vision was abysmal.

@@michaelbailey8729 I suppose if we look at fate, Churchill had a reason & i think without him we may never had succeeded. He gave us that morale i suppose. I never think of the empire as a negative thing, in that without it the world would be very different now. I am sorry for any negatives we did but i know we did better than any other empire. 🇬🇧

Sadly your right, you have to dig for the true facts of history. I fear that it's deliberately being replaced with the narrative that the powers that be want

no not really. Britain had an empire which killed, maimed, raped, pillaged, banned languages, banned native teaching, endorsed slavery and so much more. Thats the truth.