The True History Of Britain's Horrifying Role In Slavery | Britain's Slave Trade | Timeline
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Published 2017-06-19
This is the untold story of the greatest slaving nation in history. Up till now, Britain’s place in the history of slavery has been as the country that abolished the international slave trade.
Britain’s Slave Trade reveals the shameful truth behind this liberal facade, showing how the economic, social and cultural life of Britain would have been unrecognisable without slavery. Britain’s Slave Trade explains how a middling European power transformed itself into the ruler of the waves, tracing the impact this had on the British way of life and taking in the Industrial Revolution, the beginnings of Empire and the birth of modern racism along the way. It also unearths startling evidence showing how many families that think of themselves as ‘pure’ English stock are in fact descended from slave ancestors.
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How anyone, no matter the circumstances, can lay 110 lashings to a child, is truly evil.
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I cant imagine being thrown into the ocean to drown or worse, watching my child, mother, father or wife be thrown overboard and not be able to do anything about it. The trade was so heinous and deplorable I cant get my head around how anyone could impose such cruelty upon another human being. It's just absolute insanity.
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As a black person I am humbled to learn how my ancestors endured and survived for me to live and the only pay back to them is to try and live my life well and to say thank you always
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Man’s brutality to his fellow man knows no bounds…the shame can never be erased…
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I am Jamaican. I felt the sting particularly when I lived a year in England to study and visited several of the grand estates and beautiful buildings. I was thankful that I did not have to live through those times. I don't know how my ancestors survived but I am grateful to them for doing so.
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Being a black South African and seeing all these, i get sick. This is disgusting. Actually who's a savage here? Who's barbaric here? These are the results of sick minds
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As a black british women I'm deeply hurt but I'm also deeply proud of how much change has happened in the human race and how we now treat each other. We still have a long way to go, but THANK GOD our hearts have change a lot. Lets stay FOCUSED on that 🙏🏾
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When I was 13 years old I was getting a daily whipping with the belt. One time when I was 14 years old I rebelled and ran off when my father was going to give me my daily whipping. He yelled for me to stop, and shouted he was going to give me 100 lashes if I didn't come back. I ran to my neighbors house and tried to hide under their station wagon. My father and my older brother grabbed me by my legs and wrenched me out. I held on with all my might but My grip failed as my arm was dislocated from my shoulder. I was taken home and my father made good on his threat. I received 100 lashes from his belt. I was bruised and bleeding from my shoulders to my knees on the back of my legs. There wasn't any child protection agencies in those days. I ran away from home and set out on my own at age 15, and made a pact with myself to never hit any of my children. I'm 65 years old now, and my 1st and only wife is 39. I have 4 beautiful children with her all under the age of 9. We all love each other so much. They have made it possible for me to realize how much I appreciate what I was robbed of when I was a child.
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Those in power still talk the same way when it comes to trade and employment 😡😡
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The more I read, the more I listen and the more I read I am feeling as if I lived back then with my fellow Africans. I will not call them slaves, i will not remember them as slaves. They were people just like anyone else.
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If you don't think this caused massive generational damage I'm not sure what to say.
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In 2015, the government finished paying compensation to the slave owners ancestors. Ancestors of slave's are told to 'GET OVER IT' and to 'STOP LIVING IN THE PAST'!! No one should ever forget the 'AFRICAN HOLOCAUST'!!
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Crazy how people who did horrible things to other human beings get statues and huge memorials in their names as if they were good people just because everybody else did it dont make it right I would be ashamed if my family did things like that to other human beings
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It’s amazing what individuals, still to this day, try and justify knowing that their family wealth came off the back of slaves. The comments from Ms Condrington Johnson are unbelievable. A slave asking for help? Gosh, how dare they! I hadn’t realised that the slave owners were paid compensation after emancipation. Sickening.
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Awfully cruel how one race could treat another with such cruelty.I can feel the pain right now.
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How these people were treated is beyond my mindset. I’ve been raised in rough areas my whole life, violence was in that area as well. No matter what I’ve been through, I never thought of inflicting pain or torture of this magnitude.
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I just can't image owning another person! Anyone that can enslave another human being is sick, these people were savages.
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In September 1781-442 slaves were being carried to west indies. He decided to throw 133 slaves over board. The insurance would pay for the losses. In court the lawyers argued that drowning slaves were no different from drowning horses. Diabolic!
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The Royal Family should have to give up their riches and give back to those they treated cruelly.
