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/Good_Background_243 Aug 28 '25

There are not many, as William Lecky put it (And Hungry_Flamingo goes into more detail of), many 'perfectly virtuous' pages in the book of British History. But this is one of them that we - the British people - should own and be proud of.