SLAVERY: The Abolitionists' Cause

Slavery 200 years on: A video montage of Wilberforce's speech to the House of Commons 1789 and testimonies of slaves (including Olaudah Equiano)

Go to the www.allsouls.org to hear Hugh Palmer's great sermon from that night.

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News & Politics

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• slavery
• abolition
• anniversary
• wilberforce
• equiano

[navita786]

the video seems to be skipping, the quality is not so good.what can i do to make it flow easily? i want to use this clip in my presentation tomorrow, but it is not showing properly. help!

[quaerentia]

Hi - it is probably because of your bandwidth. I have the original - but it is absolultely huge and so most email programmes wouldn't be able to cope with it - sorry.

[mrskenney21]

How can blacks ask for respect and equality when it comes to race and then we turn right around and be racist ourselves. It isnt right, we dont want people calling us niggers but u turn right around and say racist things about white people. U arent being any better than the next racist person. Think before u speak please.

[truthhitmanisback]

Blacks were the first abolitionish when they used to jump ship to free themselves, or run away from the wicked masters. Then after white people made their money some of them joined in the abolition of slavery. They started too late. Stop acting like blacks should only speak out in defence of white people , and not themselves, otherwise they are reverse racist. Some of you blacks seem to have left your minds back in Africa every time you side with a people that allow the BNP to exist.

[zjones1222]

@truthhitmanisback I agree with you 110% black folks have lost their respect for being a people.

[zjones1222]

@mrskenney21 The human mind has its ways of expressing emotions through writing. Anyway, the beginning of slavery involved a written doctrine proposed and agreed upon to use African people as cattle. White privilege is not a lie and racism is more apparent today than yesterday. I am not suggesting today drinking out of a water fountain, certain restuarants, movie theaters matters but the superiority complex thrives and is repeated daily.

[AfroFilipino411]

personly i think that the segragation is worser than slavery

[mikolajoskierko]

"I beg Mr Jefferson that in case I should die without will or testament he should bye out of my money so many Negros and free them, that the restant Sum should be Sufficient to give them education and provide for their maintenance..."

Tadeus Kosciuszko

5.V.1798

Greetings from Poland.

[firedragon007z]

thanks for the upload, it helped me out with my project

[firedragon007z]

thats so true

[cenclar]

we cant be like that...it makes us no better then them

[WOOOSEEE]

I understand your feelings.I must say the sight of slaves is horrible...for lack of a better word. On the other hand, the whites of those days had been overtaken by their animalistic nature. There is more humanity today.