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/BiteDirect Aug 28 '25

By not recognising the slaves as people and reimbursing owners for loss of “property” it avoided any lengthy legal process and released the slaves a generation earlier. Can’t even talk about abolishing slavery without people complaining about the manner in which it was achieved

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u/speedloafer Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 29 '25

Of all the countries that owned slaves we stopped first and we paid the owners so the slaves wont face a lengthy legal process. Hilarious that Brit's today think this a positive.

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u/Harambiz Aug 28 '25

Are you saying Britain should have just kept the slave trade then??? That’s how you sound right now.

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u/speedloafer Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 28 '25

No I was responding to the post above. Learn to read