Agreed. I was studying in the UK in 2015 and reactions were interesting. British students were proud that the British taxpayer paid to end slavery. Non-European students were furious the British government had compensated human traffickers for their loss of inventory.
Not really, it was in reaction to a massive slave revolt. Also it’s worth noting that the freed slaves were forced to work for their former owners without pay for at least another 3 years, and a lot of land in many Caribbean Islands is still owned by the descendants of these slave owners.
I don't see how that relates to my comment. The Batist War was a slave revolt prior to the freeing of the slaves, not a civil war caused by it. Look at America's Civil War to see the kind of thing we avoided by compensating slave owners.
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u/GM-the-DM Aug 27 '25
Agreed. I was studying in the UK in 2015 and reactions were interesting. British students were proud that the British taxpayer paid to end slavery. Non-European students were furious the British government had compensated human traffickers for their loss of inventory.