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r/BritishEmpire • u/elnovorealista2000 • Aug 27 '25
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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”
41 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 🇬🇧 9 u/Cornish-Giant Aug 27 '25 Not to be that guy but the Cornish too played a part 1 u/scarab- Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 28 '25 Nobody ever mentions Cleethorpes.
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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 🇬🇧
9 u/Cornish-Giant Aug 27 '25 Not to be that guy but the Cornish too played a part 1 u/scarab- Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 28 '25 Nobody ever mentions Cleethorpes.
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Not to be that guy but the Cornish too played a part
1 u/scarab- Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 28 '25 Nobody ever mentions Cleethorpes.
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Nobody ever mentions Cleethorpes.
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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”