The British sustained the African slave trade "Truth is strange but a truth it is"

[akkadianarab]

@KKKSuperFan as if they would have done shit with those resources

just look at Liberia a country formed by former slaves that wanted to go back to africa and govern themselves

end result: the worst slum in the world

they literally walk in their own shit

watch this /watch?v=QQSjyYRTDVM&feature=p­layer_embedded

[akkadianarab]

@KKKSuperFan exactlly other races that have been enslaved have all managed to bounce back, yet these people sit on their asses all day expecting handouts on the pretext that Arabs and Whites brought down their "glorious civilizationS"

[17antonios]

@akkadianarab i have to agree on this!! i am greek and we all know that greeks were under roman and turkish occupation, which meant tortures, slavery, dependence, for about 1400 years!!! longer that the african people, who i respect! in 1941 the german invaded and we were under them for 4 years!!! but we have moved on!!! we shouldn't forget our past or what our ancestors suffered, instead, we should honour them, but i can't blame the turks for my politicians' incompetence!!

[17antonios]

Απάντηση σε αυτό το βίντεο... objectively speaking, the african weather conditions don't help them to flourish, but i think that they have other resources they can exploit!! on the other hand, i can't watch african children starving to death and just say...why should i care!!! it can happen to everyone, either a nation or an individual!! but as Jesus said, before kingdoms change, people must change!! and i think the first step for them is education!! then, everyone changes!

[SD78]

WTF is this bullshit???

The British single-handedly ENDED the Trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1807, then OUTLAWED it altogether in 1833!

The World owes the British a debt of gratitude for being the first people in history to comprehensively abolish slavery.

[ThePewpewz]

@SD78 The British may have outlawed it in their lands, but they most definitely supported slavery.

[order9066]

@SD78 The british participated in the African slave trade for years over 100 years. Google Bense, Bunse or Bance Island for example. Or the Zong Massacre. The british monarchy never abolished slavery because they enjoyed the profits that taxing the slave trade brought them. It took the efforts of british abolitionists, not the crown to finally end slavery in England. It is the british government and crown who owe Africa an apology for slavery.

[SD78]

@order9066

No, Africa owes Britain a debt of gratitude for being the first to comprehensively abolish slavery on the continent in recorded history.

[order9066]

@SD78 African slavery was no where near as bad as European/British slavery. British industry and the crown profited from kidnapping Africans and selling them into slavery on plantations in british-occupied territories. The crown should apologize for slavery. But first the crown should acknowledge its role in the sinister trade. On Bunce Island (british slave island) cannons rust with the mark of an unelected king stamped on them. Africa would have been without britain's meddling.

[SD78]

@order9066

Africans captured other Africans and sold them to European slave traders.

Once again, Britain comprehensively abolished both the European and African slave trade, even though they had no compelling reason to do so (other than doing what was morally right) and it actually hurt them economically, especially in the Caribbean.

You should graciously thank the British for abolishing slavery for the first time in Africa's recorded history.

[order9066]

@SD78 Once again, the british from the crown down to the slave ship builders in Liverpool and London profited from shipping slaves out of Africa. The world wonders why the crown never ended slavery in its colonies and britain before the practice took hold, and the world wonders why britain and its unelected monarchs never apologized for the practice of shipping kidnapped Africans from their homeland. "The Queen's Slave Trader: John Hawkyns, Elizabeth I, and the Trafficking in Human Souls."

[SD78]

@order9066

The obvious answer is "so what?'.

Once again, Britain comprehensively abolished the African slave trade(which had been endemic to the entire continent for thousands of years), despite being under absolutely no obligation to do so.

You're referencing a book about a privateer who made three whole slave-trading expeditions? LOL!

[order9066]

@SD78 The british monarchy supported british slavers economically with the british East Africa Company. The unelected british monarchs had many opportunities to abolish the slave trade, yet it took Wilberforce's efforts to get that done. Just research the "Zong Massacre" for example. Britain had a long, sordid involvement with African slavery and deserves no accolades for interfering in the sovereignty of African nations.

[TheLiberalKnight]

@order9066 Wrong, you uneducated pig. The British Monarchs have had no power over law since 1707. Even if they wanted to get rid of slavery, they didn't have the power to do it.

Unlike the Americans, who were one of the last countries to ban slavery, Britain banned it first. And we were the single most powerful anti-slavery force for over 300 years. How dare a yank lecture us on slavery.

[order9066]

@TheLiberalKnight The true, angry subject of the crown speaks! The british monarchs never spoke out against slavery and enjoyed the taxes levied on the british slavers and the colonial and british slave economy. How dare a pikie lecture America about slavery. Bunce Island was a british slave castle off the Coast of Sierra Leone "...best known as one of the chief suppliers of slaves to the rice industry in the British colonies of South Carolina and Georgia." Remember the Zong!

[TheLiberalKnight]

@order9066 Bam! Wrong in the first sentence. George III and George II both personally opposed the slave trade. Secondly, don't complain about taxes, the colonist only had to pay 1/7th of what mainland Britons had to pay. And those taxes were necessary to defend the colonies.

We banned slavery nearly half a century before you did. Don't you dare lecture us on slavery. British Canada used to be a safe haven for American slaves before the civil war.

[order9066]

@TheLiberalKnight Incorrect. The unelected monarchs granted the "royal" charters that legally protected and monopolized the kidnapping of Africans into chattel slavery. The monarchs never took a strong stand against slavery and enjoyed the taxes the slave trade brought to britain's coffers. America has formerly apologized for slavery. More than we can say for the unelected monarch now running your island. If britain never supported slavery why would it have "ban" it at all?

[order9066]

@TheLiberalKnight And when the Zong Massacre or "Incident" occurred, backwards british law didn't prosecute a single killer under Captain Collingwood's command. Britain ran the Bance Island slave fort, built slave ships, employed slavers, insured slave ships and enjoyed the revenue slavery brought to the british island. The crown even had "slave regulations".. "An Act to regulate, for a limited Time, the shipping and carrying Slaves in British Vessels from the Coast of Africa"

[TheLiberalKnight]

@order9066 You just so horribly unintelligent in every way. You are right, the first British Empire supported slavery. However, many leading politicians, including George II, George III, William Pitt the younger & Elder, Walpole, were all personally opposed to the slave trade. They did nothing about it because they were worried about the impact on the markets.

'unelected monarchy now running your island', you're such a fucking imbecile, please just die.

[order9066]

@TheLiberalKnight "After the Royal African Company's monopoly was rescinded in 1698, the British became the largest and most efficient carriers of slaves to the New World." Symbiosis: Trade and the British Empire, By Professor Kenneth Morgan... The british prime minister has to kiss the unelected monarchs hand before he/she can be sworn into office. Who has "no" power again?

[TheLiberalKnight]

@order9066 You don't understand our consitution, just because it isn't written. A baby-like mentality that too many Americans share.

[order9066]

@TheLiberalKnight The british constitution is a bunch of disjointed witten agreements wrested from the unelected monarchs who ran the british island over the years.If a member of parliament doesn't swear allegiance to the crown, they can't be seated. Now that's childish.

[TheLiberalKnight]

@order9066 Our constitution is the finest in the world, far better than America's. Just ask the Tunisians, who in their first election ever this year, voted for a party to base their new system of government on Britain, beating the party who wanted an American styled constitution.

[2540waves]

The irony is Arab muslims have been trading slaves for 1,000 years and it is estimated that in that time arabs captured 102 000 000 black africans who were castrated and sent around the globe.

Saudi arab-or mecca, only abolished slavery in 1962.

the arabic word 'Slave', comes from european slavs, they traded over 1 000 000 to different parts of the world, but you don't hear this in racial tolorance class.

why turn to a religion that inslaved your ancestors?

[ANGLOSAXONHELLFIRE]

And what of the 1.5 Million white slaves(mostly English) taken from Europe by the North Africans ?

We are ALL as bad, as each other ! It did not stop the British inventing 56 % of the Worlds greatest inventions. Which is more than we can say for any other race !

[tehutimes]

History is taught in movies to control minds let alone in public or private school systems.

[moebigsley1976]

You know, seeing all these little tidbits of history is really starting to knit things together. Fall of Roman Empire, Arab invasion of North Africa, Moorish conquest of Spain, China sails around the world(visits Europe), Europe recaptures Spain, the so called "discovery" of the New World, etc, etc.  Really explains things better than the crap they teach in school.

[markellion]

So you do know the stuff about "Moors" bringing down the "black race" makes no sense right? Remember that there were invasions in the opposite direction too

And there is no question that Ethiopian influence was supreme during the time of Mohamed, therefor Islam cannot be attributed and/or blamed on Arabs alone. In fact the subsequent Arab conquests cannot be attributed/blamed on Arabs alone since they had no small support from the kings of the Sudan

[baronmorris]

trippy.