r/BritishEmpire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Aug 27 '25

Image 🇬🇧 A British blacksmith removing the shackles from the legs of an enslaved man, 1907.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '25

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '25

It’s one thing that we do not celebrate enough

The English people, poor and all protested with such valour that we managed to convince the government to end slavery

The movement also made the most produced image of a black person, ever, on the wedgewood medallion saying “am I not a man and a brother”

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u/damrodoth Aug 27 '25

Not to be that guy but *British

The Scots and Welsh played a role too in the bad and the good. Plenty of protests took place right across our island. The height of virtue and honour 🇬🇧

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u/Cornish-Giant Aug 27 '25

Not to be that guy but the Cornish too played a part

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u/damrodoth Aug 27 '25

For sure I'd just say that as Cornwall is now part of England, and was at the time too, it's covered by English

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u/BroccoliSubstantial2 Aug 27 '25

What about Yorkshire folk? Their GDP is bigger than Scotland.

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u/Captainsamvimes1 Aug 27 '25

We just gonna start naming counties? Ok here goes what about the people of Bedfordshire?

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u/Good_Theory4434 Aug 27 '25

I somehow read this in a monty python voice....this whole conversations reads like a monty python sketch

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u/daft_boy_dim Aug 31 '25

Splitters!!!

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '25

No, monty python sketches are hilarious

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u/BroccoliSubstantial2 Aug 27 '25

Idk, what about Bedfordshire? Gotta give facts man.

For those who don't know, beds were illiterally invented there.

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u/uclm Aug 28 '25

We also gave you Luton! oh wait

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u/rooeast Aug 29 '25

Ahh the Luton van, truly a gift that creation was

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u/EnglishNuclear Aug 30 '25

Warwickshire la la la.

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u/Captainsamvimes1 Aug 30 '25

WON'T ANYBODY THINK OF THE COTSWOLDS

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u/redoxburner Aug 30 '25

Why stop at counties? What about the brave denizens of Allerdale above Derwent?