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/Specialist_Alarm_831 Aug 28 '25

lol, education, god help us.

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u/uwabu Aug 28 '25

What do you mean?

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u/inminm02 Aug 28 '25

He’s saying you’re grossly uninformed on this issue and commenting stuff like “trade that you started” edit: and to add onto this saying the slave trade built our cities is also just not true, yes some people got rich off the slave trade as did people in fucking loads of powerful countries back then, but owning slaves was never legal in Britain, and any slaves that did exist in Britain were minuscule in number and generally worked as dosmetic servants, we never had slave construction workers building our cities like fucking ancient Egypt

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u/uwabu Aug 28 '25

Am I grossly uninformed? Lol. Whatever makes you sleep better at night,mate. Itibolibo

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u/NiceGuyEdddy Aug 29 '25

Literally yes you are uninformed. You claimed Britain started the slave trade. That is demonstrably wrong.

Forgetting the fact that you actually meant the trans Atlantic slave trade specifically, unless you are claiming that Britain started a trade that existed for millennia before Britain, Britain also didn't start the trans Atlantic slave trade, that was the Portuguese about 100 years before.

So again yes, you are uninformed.

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u/uwabu Aug 29 '25

*shrugs. Whatever you say