The Truth Behind the British Crusade Against Slavery | American Reacts 

Everyone who’s free should love the British 👍

oh the british a bunch of saviors!!! after enslaving 25 percent of the world.

I’m Black and read a lot of history on the subject and this videos is nothing more than white British people trying to revise and erase real history and put fake history full of lies, so white British can think of themselves as anti-slavery heroes. It is utter bullshit and they are trying to trick African Americans who don’t know much about British history into believing these lies. Yes, Britain abolished slavery before America, but even after they abolished Britain was still one of the biggest controllers of the slavery industry in the world and many British slaves didn’t get freedom until many decades after abolition and the bias inaccurate video never mentions that the Royal Family owned more Black slaves than any family in the world and branded every slave with a hot poker with the royal insignia and fails to mention that British government were paying compensation to descendants of slave owning families until 2017 for slavery being abolished and not paying a single penny to black descendants of these slaves. the British bury the truth and come with fake truth for themselves and own ego.

Not sure if that can really be considered a war. It would be a little bit like today considering a single airstrike somewhere as a war that lasted few mins while that airstrike was happening.

And we sent the Sultan a bill for the ammunition expended. I don't know if he paid it, but I bet he did.

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Kafila is the equivalent of a sponsored work visa. All the millions of non Saudi citizens are all the equivalent of slaves?

​@sajO5754 depends which country u come from because if you are from the west u have access to your passports however if you are from anywhere else your passport is taken from you for the entire time of your contract which is a minimum of 3 years. I know I lived there as a British expat. It's disturbing and the same in places such as dubai the horror stories I know about these places is just unreal an absolute horror story.

@@micheletrainor1601 But you can't class that as slavery.....that was my point.

@@sajO5754 oh so u don't class young women going there as nurses having their passports taken from them and " given" to the men of a house to quench their desires slavery, or the Labour camps they have there as not slavery? Did you know that the phillipines at one point stopped men and especially women going to the Persian gulf and Middle East because of the horror of what they went through and all the people that " dissappear " Then should they get to their embassy their are taken back to their owner " sponser" for the abuse to continue. I know I tried saving some when I lived there. I know of undocumented ( kidnapped) castrated little boys in palaces in dubai and Saudi Arabia as they can be around the women without being seen as a threat. Please don't tell me about countries I was raised in and things I have seen. I wish I could erase what I have seen and know from my mind but I can't. U call it what u want I know what it is.

Mostly through disease and illness not through combat because you’re stopping merchantmen who care more about profit than swashbuckling. Also the British set up the West Africa Squadron to harm the commercial interests of the French, not to free slaves initially. Think about it. 1807 is balls deep in the middle of the Napoleonic Wars and the British people had demanded the government end the slave trade which is a highly profitable enterprise in itself let alone the wealth slaves extracted when put to work. People today forget that slaves were viewed not as people but as a commodity and If Britain could no longer trade in slaves it certainly wasn’t about to let France do the same after Napoleon reinstated slavery. That’s why the West Africa Squadron let the slave ships of her allies Sweden and Portugal pass its patrols for a number of years. Britain emerged from the war as the strongest power in the world and the largest slave empire which meant everyone else just had to accept their ships being searched. There’s a reason a Spanish diplomat said to Castlereagh on the topic of abolition that ‘You English have always been good at making business March alongside honour’ Whilst I understand why people would think that Britain was freeing slaves it’s the 19th century equivalent of believing we went into Iraq for the WMD

But you know Britain started the slave trade

i may be wrong so i'm happy to be corrected but i believe we lost around 10,000 sailors and marines and around 100 ships and we spent 40% of GDP per annum for around fifty years to do so.

@@aethellstan I don’t think those numbers are accurate but it wouldn’t matter. Let’s say they are accurate. Britain didn’t fight slavery for the sake of freeing slaves. The West Africa Squadron came into being in 1807/1808. Britain allowed slavery to continue in the Western Hemisphere until 1833 and in India for another 10 years. Nobody can seriously think Britain ended the slave trade for a principled reason but were happy with actual slavery for three more decades at least. The British people demanded an end to the slave trade and the Squadron was established (in the middle of the Napoleonic Wars) to harm the commercial interests of Britains imperials rivals. There’s a reason why at roughly the same time a Spanish diplomat said to Lord Castlereigh ‘You English have always been good at making business march alongside honour.’

@@allowit328 that's disingenuous at best. the drive to stop slavery started before the napoleonic wars. and yes 1807 was the end of the slave trade but not of slavery, that stopped (i believe) in 1837ish. as with all history you always get different points of view, so on the one hand you have the "we abolished slavery for the world" view from britain and "you abolished the slave trade so we could not make money etc" from britains enemies. as with every story the truth lies between.

They weren't stupid. They knew they had more in common with the people they were kidnapping and selling than they did with the Arabs and Europeans they were selling them to! They knew they were the same people from different tribes. They just had no close connection to them. It's dishonest to state otherwise!

Except for criminals, political prisoners, and those in debt and their families who lost their value to those in power, and selling them overseas put them beyond return.

@@michaelhoffman5201 I am not sure that was such an issue regarding West Africans enslaving other West Africans.

Grow up ! It happened here in Britain and in every other part of this planet.

@@hiramabiff2017 Again, I am not sure that's relevant in reference to someone saying that they can't believe black people did that to their own people.

Must be why there’s a Statue of Lincoln in Manchester town centre

Yep.and I the song Jerusalem ,it mentions the dark satanic mills.tgats what it referred to..whenever someone mentions colonialism to me,I always say ,what did we colonise,and as you say we took all of our science with us.we brought civilisation,the rule so law and education and then we left.how fantastic was that.

@@richardjames9091 stuff Lincoln you anti Brit racists.

Saying that the British empire did bad things is not ‘bashing the brits’ it’s an accurate telling of history. They did good things (the masses generally, like demanding an end to the slave trade) and bad things (the elites generally, who profited from slavery, war etc). The reason sports fans criticise their teams if they lose is because they want their team to do better. The same with an accurate representation of our history.

@@allowit328 it’s strange how nobody mentions the many more bad things other empires such as the Ottomans & the Moors did, or the Vikings, the Roman Empire, the Belgians, the Dutch , the French, the Conquistadors who colonised South America. As Empires go, ours was one of the most benign. We brought democracy and the rule of law to many countries. We also brought trains, technology, industry, and most of our discoveries and inventions, which are countless. . Colonisation has gone on since the dawn of time, since the first Africans left Africa to colonise Europe. The whole world has been built on Colonisation.

Simply not enough Royal Navy around, logistically it far was easier to send a distant emissary "stop, take the money, of else"

Unfortunately the enslaved people were never compensated. It's quite sickening when you think about it.

​@@yippee8570 Compensating the former slave owners ensured that they had cash on hand to pay their now free workers a living wage. Many plantations etc. would have gone bankrupt and closed operations had the slaves just been freed, and with little money on hand to pay workers they wouldn't have had workers, resulting in economic catastrophe. £20 million was 20% of Britain's budget for 1833. That's Britain as head of the largest empire that ever existed on earth. In 1833 the British government took out an international loan that amounted to 20% of its budget for the year, a loan that took 182 years to pay off. The government at the time did a pretty decent job , all things considered.

​@@yippee8570 Nobody gave a fuck about the plight of slaves back then. Nobody gives a fuck about present day slavery either. Shameful.

@@yippee8570 Enslaved people were never compensated? "Here. You're free. Bought and paid for, and neither you, nor anyone else, will be enslaved again so long as we have anything to say about it." That's compensation. What they DID with that is on them. But to go down the road you're talking about would mean we're all paying back someone else, and they pay someone else, and THEY pay someone else, because we've been fighting and enslaving each other since the dawn of time. A free gift enshrined in law is just "slightly" better than trying to wade through a "compensation" mess. Who'd pay it? Ultimately they were sold into slavery by their own ethnic people... do you march over to a neighbouring tribe, beat them up and take their money to pay those they enslaved? What about those who enslaved that tribe decades before? On and on... or just: "You're free. Now live free." The latter worked better. For those nations that, once they were "freed" from the British Empire fell into absolute chaos... that's THEIR choice. If freed slaves didn't appropriate their freedom, or if you're a descendent of former slaves (you are, for we ALL are) and you're bitching and moaning because you don't have what your neighbours have... work for it. You lack because of your choices, most times. Make better ones. But compensation is a matter of tort law, and the law around the world before Britain changed things allowed Slavery, so tort law doesn't apply. They weren't disadvantaged by someone else breaking the law, so there's nothing to compensate... especially as, if the shoe had been on the other foot, they'd have happily done the enslaving themselves. That's how common and normal it was. Freedom spoke louder, and still speaks louder now.

this is the problem its not taught in school in the UK which it should. I learned this about 9 months ago at the age of 38

I'm 43 and learned about this when I was in year 9, so I was 13. It might surprise you how many people are aware of the truth. Unfortunately, trying to voice the truth when surrounded by stupidity and manipulated narratives is like trying to teach particle physics to a particle. I'd have more chance of finding the holy grail.

@sneesby08 We were taught all about the slave trade and Britains crucial decision to end it. We also learned about abolitionists like William Wilberforce. Kind you that was High school in the late 70's and early 80's.

​@sneesby08 I'm 46 and I learned this in school

@@sneesby08 I was taught it at an early age, I'm 57 now but I do come from the city that ended slavery, Hull, England

It could be based in Freetown. That's in West Africa. I wonder how it got that name?

It would be about women navy trans ppl and gay no white ppl stopping the white slavers with British accents there make it out about how bad straight white British men are and if ppl moan there say your racist . It would be stupid just pure haterd to whites forgetting the Africans sold the own honest ppl.

Trouble is nowadays with todays directors, producers and writers we would still end up as the bad guys and the minorities or some other group would be the ones putting a stop to the trade

They wouldn't tell a story outside their narrative.

exactly however it does noke go with the WOKE narative.

Made worse by the fact that there was less that you could do with that kind of wealth. There were no super yachts or experimental space flights or private jets. The rich didn't even have better medicine; doctors were still using mercury and arsenic as pain killers FFS. At that level of wealth it's a video game: you just want the number to go up.

Inflation a bitch yo

I had to check the equivalent monetary valuation too. It works out at just shy of $90,000,000 for those across the pond

Didn't know this. Needs to be taught in schools more.

Aren’t they mainly from the Caribbean? So why would they not have a case?

As Canada did as well !,

There was no British in 1102. Britain became official in 1707. England and Britain are not synonyms.

@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 Albion or engla land united under kingdom of England by Ethelstan 😂

Also the mortality rate amongst ship's crews on the West Indian route was reported to Parliament as around 26.5%.

Slavery was illegal in England from the 11th century

Roots was a totally fictional film. The producer of this film made it like this so he could ensure an audience . But it wasn’t based on any truth.

Alex Haley is reported as saying that he wanted to create `a myth for my people` .In other words, the equivalent of a Fairy Story, but has ramped up into THE TRUTH ,which has echoed down the years. Glad to see a young generation are prepared to ask questions, American history is not a Standalone from the rest of the World.

I’m Black and read a lot of history on the subject and this videos is nothing more than white British people trying to revise and erase real history and put fake history full of lies, so white British can think of themselves as anti-slavery heroes. It is utter bullshit and they are trying to trick African Americans who don’t know much about British history into believing these lies. Yes, Britain abolished slavery before America, but even after they abolished Britain was still one of the biggest controllers of the slavery industry in the world and many British slaves didn’t get freedom until many decades after abolition and the bias inaccurate video never mentions that the Royal Family owned more Black slaves than any family in the world and branded every slave with a hot poker with the royal insignia and fails to mention that British government were paying compensation to descendants of slave owning families until 2017 for slavery being abolished and not paying a single penny to black descendants of these slaves. the British bury the truth and come with fake truth for themselves and own ego.

The Roots author actually admitted it was a fabricated story. But to this day many believe it's a true story...

I watch all of that & cry then found out its was not true

Britain probably never enslaved an African native. We with other European just sailed up and bought them from African slavers. Horrendous but at that time perfectly normal

reminds me of the line from Monty python Life of Brian, what did the romans ever do for us

"Britain made the modern world".....? What? Literally how?

@@shy404usernotfound. The Industrial Revolution, for a start. Anyone with an ounce of common-sense would know!

@@shy404usernotfound The English language. The universal language of the world.

The narrator is the grandson of a freed black slave from St Helena, who came to Britain to help with the war effort WW2

@@dunkirk1581 didn't know that, I'll look it up

​@@dunkirk1581sargon?

@@caitgems1 yes, of Akkad, olso on Lotus Eaters, real name Carl Bemjamin.

1172we were under norman rule new world [america] not discovered until 1482

Oh @user-ip8jf1bk1c, how clever you are!!! It was a typo. Rather than work that out, you decide to be sanctimonious and lofty with your show of hightened intelligence. 😮

May I just applaud and say `Argentina`

Well we did have a lot to be proud of before we imported millions of muslims and basically destroyed our culture.

Far from perfect? We ran drugs to China and fought wars to keep the trade going.

​@alanbeaumont4848 try and be balanced in your comments

Oh like starting a war over taxes. And lost. Lol Brits are something else 😂

The funniest thing is that the working-class British people who had nothing to do with slavery are proud to be taxed over nearly two centuries to pay the slave owners compensation.😅

And the thanks we get? Huh

Parts of the world are very poor because of the British. They imposed the British 'good things' and suppressed the local culture.

Keep enjoying your arrogance...

We will thanks 👍

the british got all the indian food for himself and let millions of indian starve to death

Racism.

Because of its hand in colonisation - slavery- drug trade- economic exploitation ect ect .

​@@adrianmcdonald84I believe the British are not racist .

The British get called rotten but in truth we fought for freedom and gave everything. William the Bastard was hated and was made to sign a rule of law. We have the Magna Carter . How else do the American constitution came about . , it was amended from the British Magna Carter . George Washington was a British soldier . 😂 at one point . The white house is only white because the British burnt it down so they painted it white because of fire damage . . Little nuggets of history, while fighting America the British was also fighting the Spanish the french and Portuguese over slavery. That's why we sing Rule Britannia Britannia rules the wave. Britain never ever shall be slaves . ❤

Mostly jealousy!

And Malcolm X and Louis Farakhan , the lot.

I don't think americans understand that clearly nowadays as they're brought up with this simplistic 'white vs black' mentality.

The people who sold them were black and were exactly the same people, only difference they being Muslims of the Ottoman countries all over north African countries who insisted the Koran gave them the right to take non Muslim slaves. Black africans kept 100 times more black slaves than were sent to America, they also had 1.2 million white slaves taken from european, british, Irish , icelandic, American, ships and towns which led to the 1st and 2nd barbary wars between america and the ottoman empire. Colour had nothing to do with it, only money, slaves could be any colour didnt matter

@@GarryMercer-tq5uo slavery predates Islam by many thousands of years.

@@30noir So what? Slavery began the same time humans began, everyone enslaved everyone, until the mid 1700s to the mid 1800s when corporate slavery slowly took over

​@@GarryMercer-tq5uo That's what I said... color had nothing to do with it... the differences were social, tribal, religious etc... I was replying to the original video reactor who was saying that it was black people selling their own people. It wasn't... they were both black yes but that didn't enter the equation... they were of different tribes, different social positions and different religions and that's what they were made slave.

To be fair, USA does enforce their values and rules on sovereign nations, almost like Britain forced everyone to abolish slavery. My country was forced to fire an attorney general who investigated corruption schemes of a popular American politician. This case is known, but it had no consequences. I may assume, the abolition of slavery was unpleasant for slave owners, but two centuries later we can appreciate this effort of British people. Maybe, we dislike this only because we are bad people, and our grandchildren will learn to appreciate a governmental corruption.

@@your_neko With the way thing are happening with the US right now, dont see it lasting that much longer in it's current state, unless drastic mesures are taken to get rid of the corruption.

I’m Black and read a lot of history on the subject and this videos is nothing more than white British people trying to revise and erase real history and put fake history full of lies, so white British can think of themselves as anti-slavery heroes. It is utter bullshit and they are trying to trick African Americans who don’t know much about British history into believing these lies. Yes, Britain abolished slavery before America, but even after they abolished Britain was still one of the biggest controllers of the slavery industry in the world and many British slaves didn’t get freedom until many decades after abolition and the bias inaccurate video never mentions that the Royal Family owned more Black slaves than any family in the world and branded every slave with a hot poker with the royal insignia and fails to mention that British government were paying compensation to descendants of slave owning families until 2017 for slavery being abolished and not paying a single penny to black descendants of these slaves. the British bury the truth and come with fake truth for themselves and own ego.

There are literally more slaves in the world today than at the height of the trans-atlantic slave trade. Arab nations have never stopped the practice

​@@your_nekomore than effort we (tax payers) only finished paying off the debt in 2015...

He was an indentured servant who eventually gained his freedom. He was just above a slave legally for him to buy his brethren so they could maybe be treated like humans.

I mean, sure, but that's purely a technicality.

@@V4Now he had two Indentured servants who ran away he went to court and claimed they were his property the court ordered them to be returned therefore they were slaves his property

An excellent observation richardmartin!

Or vulnerability.

That's the whole starting point

Its colour not color

@@leehaslam5751 color is the American spelling.

Yes, most likely by Muslims, no doubt, being modern London and all.

Not by white brits a dare say.

Yeah but they’re not being brought here by British people mate. It’s that Asniral Akbar gang doing that

They did a good job in my parents' home country and it's a very multicultural and multiracial society and it's politically stable and it's on a tropical island 😉

The ignorance is what keeps them `in their place`

@@Jill-mh2wn history of the slave trade is taught in British schools. But I am not sure that the African rulers part in all this or the universal fact of slavery is adequately taught.

​@@valerietorreggiani9973 during my school in the early 2000s you got more detail from the teachers if you asked. And I know some parents wanted some better lessons on it and adapted the coriqulum like the difference between indentured servants and slaves, economics and nations involved. It wasn't all schools in London, obviously, but a few other that pushed for it.

@@V4Now not my post.

@michaelholt7994 Well said mate 👏🇬🇧

That's for the same reason people are being purposefully "educated" with misinformation about this. It's not about actually fixing these issues, it about pitting one group against another domestically. It gives the people who push this misinformation more power and control to do what they want by promising fixing these fictitious problems to gain support and resources. Same reason any group promotes something. It just so happens they have built their power on a tower of lies that certain groups want to eat up because it makes them feel good.

I think the most interesting point of the Barbary Wars was that the Barbary Pirates were so bad it united the US, UK and France (3 countries that hated each other at the time) to bring them down.

Mainly North Africa, surely.

46 million? try 46 BILLION

@@matthew4107 the figure is according to Bank of England's inflation calculator its millions not billions

I suspect, as usual, a British class divide: posh ****s conducting the slave trade as 'overseas investments' (along with plantations) and regular folk campaigning against it at home once the realities of it filtered back.

Why are you apologising we weren't the only ones We were first to stop the slavery many of the Royal Navy lost their lives Still as ever to day a soft touch! Don't Blame the common man and people It's the Royals who did this!!! Also the other European countries weren't innocent take a look around! The Arabs also had, white slaves as well as blacks and the blacks some times had their own slaves to sell with and the Arabs with harams that's exactly what the grooming gangs are modern day slavery!! May be us British should ask for compensation. 😊

Britain wasn't just part of it but the driving force. All other nations had to be forced to stop by either gold or blood.

Apologists like you kinda disgust me, should Italians be sorry for the bad stuff the Roman's did in their time? Should any other people that reside in a region of the world where empires once existed be sorry for things done there too? True brits should be proud, you however wanna focus only on the bad and act like all brits should be guilt ridden forever, britain did far far more good than anything it didnt do good, I dont ever see anyone else from other countries admitting or taking responsibility for it but we true brits put a stop to it

⁠@@darth.dominus.the.savageYou have a double standard. If you shouldn’t be apologetic for the atrocities of your country’s past then why should you be proud of the achievements of your country’s past? Either you seperate yourself from your county or you embrace your association with your country and its legacy (the good and bad). The logic you use to deny why anyone should be apologetic of Britain’s history can also be used to deny why anyone should be proud of Britain’s history.

Human nature calls for a division of everyone ,with a very few holding power and the rest subservient . It will never change ,even in communist societies ,which proclaim equaliTy for all. Some are more equal than others .

That’s right we didn’t have slavery in England it was illegal this is why I laugh at America because they could of ended slavery when they went running to the French for help to win there independence but they didn’t they still had slave and they had the cheek to say all men are created equal Americans our clearly hypocrites 😂🤣

Except Richard you overlook the English Legal system. May I humbly suggest you go and try and prove that Feudalism existed? Many have tried and failed. In principle the whole land and people were ruled and owned by the monarch? In reality, the Laws of Aethelberht (600AD) and the subsequent continuous amendments, meant any English person was protected by the Law, and the Monarch no matter how despotic was subject to the said Laws, Magna Carta 1215. Also on your point about Serfdom, English Serfdom was different to that practiced in the rest of Europe. Not only was the person bound to the land, a portion of that land was theirs to work, and retain any wealth created. That wealth did not belong to any Lord, Baron or King, but the subject working their own land. In other words, English Serfdom was a one way street, which over time gave freedom to all Commoners (what would today be called Citizens). Hence why Serfdom died out in England by 15th Century. May I make another suggestion. that you stop listening and reading Socialist claptrap, it is just full of Bullshit. Remember Socialist = stupid person so anything Socialist is stupid.

@@Nauysvyf Nearly, but it was already on the verge of extinction, there were few serfs when the Plague hit England. The shortage of labour finally brought to an abrupt end, something that had been happening over the previous 400 years. Also tha Barons and landed gentry, wanted cash, so were willing to give up labour in kind, for hard do$h. Which those rich Labourers could now finance, and buy the leases on the land. For which the King received very little, also giving a lie to the King owning everything. The population had fallen by around 40%/45% but the amount of money in circulation remained about the same. The actual Labouring classes were not serfs to start with, they were usually paid in kind, so this sudden situation of having money thrust upon them, made some rich.

@richardmartin9565 There sure is a lot of History that has been overlooked, e.g The Declaration of Arbroath which predates your claim by some 400 years and is widely acknowledged to be thee document that inspired the American declaration of Independence in the colonies.

A minimum of 3000 sailors gave their lives...some say it's as high as 5000 souls.

Definitely

I am indigenous and believe no one should feel guilty for their ancestors’ actions, regardless of what they did. Even if your ancestors were the most evil people to live, that wouldn’t mean anything about you.

Britain's primary source of wealth was innovation and invention, followed by supremacy at sea allowing for trade. The colonies cost a fortune.

@dorothysimpson2904 )don't talk rubbish. We had to borrow millions to countries to persuade them to end slavery. WE DIDN'T FINISH PAYING OFF THE DEBTS UNTIL 2015. GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT.

@dorothysimpson2804 More delusions. WE didn't win two World Wars. THE ALLIES DID. We had to borrow billions to pay for WW2, which we took years to pay back all of it to the USA in fact the last payment went to America in the Blair government (i believe). We would not have won the Battle of Britain without the pilots from Australia, Canada, South Africa, Poland and Czechoslovakia. I don't know where you studied history, but you need a refresher course.

@@patryan1375 What are you talking about, you are way to specific. Britain is part of the Allies, if the allies win Britain win. And what have borrowing money to do with anything, you do what it takes to win. Britain was essential in winning both wars, both geographically and militarily.

@@Bubajumba oh dear. Did you think we paid for WW2 with spare cash? Everything that came from the USA was paid back in full, with the last payment made towards the end of the 20th century under the Labour govt. We bought 50 of their ww1 ships and had to hand over our overseas possessions in return. Only one of the 50 ships was seaworthy but the USA never returned the payment. So, may i suggest you open a book? Then again, you are quick to hand out insults when hiding behind a stupid pseudonym.

But in the context of slavery , to the British the slaves were people

It's by Sargon of Akkad or possibly under his real name of Karl Benjamin and it's called "How Britain ended the slave trade"

The channel is called sargon of akkad and the man that runs it is called Carl Benjamin

@@chesterlestrange7725 thanks, oh I didn't know what was him talking, thought the name sounded familiar

It's the left that does the distinctions. Period.

@@crashstitches79 rolls eyes at the liar.

@@WarriorKiwi007 The lefts current philosophical guiding principle is called critical race theory dude. It's pretty obvious they are the ones obsessed with race.

@@crashstitches79 Donald Trump has called himself Scottish-American....how far right are you if Donald Trump is left in your world?

That's why you educate yourself on a subject

That sounds a bit like intellectual cowardice.

Same for you. Unless you seek some crap we dont know about.

"...the concept of slavery is contrary to the Christian faith." How so? Christianity existed for many centuries as part of a slave-holding society, and not a murmur was heard from the Church against slavery until 1435. Even after that, the message remained very mixed for another couple of centuries.

Yes

England isn't too concerned with freedom as the supreme principle. They are more concerned with being moral. It why they don't have freedom of speech and instead have lots of hate laws that allow their police to arrest people for teaching their dog how to do nazi salutes (lifting their paws in the air) or to jail and/or fine people who say they don't like p-phile Muslim gangs running around all their major cities. Americans are obsessed with freedom even if it allows immorality in contrast.

Definitely

the creators of the 'the west' the creators of 'free speech laws' the abolishers of slavery? yes, i think so.....

It depends on where you go to school and who your teacher was. If you had a woke teacher in a woke state, your taught their "White man = bad, black man = good" version of history, if you get a lost-causer as a teacher, you learn that the Civil War wasn't about slavery, etc. It's not just history either. I've had creationist science teachers and pro-evolution science teachers as well. I've had many different teachers in many different schools due to moving around to different towns as a kid, and they all teach what they think is correct. Some are neutral and some are brainwashed by one flavor of koolaid or another. Just because your school and teachers didn't try and brainwash you or others from your area doesn't mean there aren't schools and people out there that do try and do so.

When I was in school we watched roots over 3 lessons and that was it.

The Battle of Banber Bridge shows the true nature of British people's attitude to black people.

As a brit who's name ends in 'son I think you'll find it's a tad hypocritical to " blame " the British for anything😂😂👍

@@davidatkinson5858 which is why I dont do that ☺️

@@85Vikingen good for you bro👍

Bill the Bastard didn't end slavery in England out of the goodness of his heart. The punishment for slave trading in England was fiscal in nature. He legislated against it to make him money, no other reason.

William the Conqueror committed genocide in northern England. It's estimated he killed about 100,000 people in the north. In total, he killed about 12% of England's population by the time his reign of terror was over. Even for the time, his actions were considered extreme all across Europe, and even his own Norman church clergy condemned him for it. No wonder he was begging God for forgiveness for what he'd done to the English on his deathbed.

Look up Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, made St Wulfstan. He was an abolitionist in England BEFORE William and Lanfranc arrived and survived William's conquest and also became a councillor to William.

England is not multicultural. Please do not use this communist word, it's cringe.

@@oliver2629it’s a Marxist pipe dream where we will all live in a racially ambiguous, real life version of animal crossing, all living happily ever after. In reality we will get balkanisation and civil war

Not the case...look up Mansa Musa. Gold. Salt. Goods. Barter. Cowrie shells.

@@shelleyphilcox4743 Of course there was, but you know full well what I meant, namely money and nation states.

And England is part of Britian so it was the British.

I'm fairly certain that those Welsh, Scottish, and Irish sailors who fought, bled and died to free slaves will disagree with you. I'm also fairly certain that Welsh, Scottish, and Irish voters who were backing those in Parliament to abolish the slave trade and slavery will disagree with you. I'm definitely certain that Welsh, Scottish, and Irish (both Rep and Northern) disagree now as we ALL agree slavery is wrong and we're all grateful that the British Empire put the foot down hard... and we all took part. That's what the word "United" means in "United Kingdom", Robert. What applied to England applied to Wales once we were incorporated, and then applied to Ireland once they was taken over, and then applied to Scotland once they joined the Union. No matter the good or bad or horrible things that happened during all this time, we all agree now that the British Crusade was one of the greatest moments in our shared history.

You will find that Scotland was also heavily involved in the triangle trade and the abolition of the said trade. You have forgotten that we had become Great Britain by 1707.