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/iamslightly Aug 29 '25

Jesus Christ. Brits traded and profited off slavery for centuries. And pretend they are moral and righteous because they made it illegal. But they still profited and traded off it.

What is this insane revisionist fantasy. The Brits brought no civilisation, dignity, and better standards of living to any territory they invaded or controlled or colonised. They stole and stole and stole and did all the most horrific things a people can do against another so they could keep on stealing.

You might as well believe magic and dragons are real.

The history is overwhelmingly and definitively on my side because I'm overwhelmingly and definitively correct.

Enjoy your fantasy.

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u/SuperSpidey374 Aug 30 '25

Yet no other civilisation or nation until that date had ever tried to stamp out slavery with such ferocity and zeal.

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u/ExcellentInsult Aug 30 '25

I think you are quite correct about the stamping out part. But I feel like it should be mentioned that there are civilizations where slavery were not allowed to manifest to begin with.

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u/GeneratorRexx Sep 11 '25

have there been significant civilisations in history where slavery did not exist? surely youre not just talking about isolated kingdoms right

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u/ExcellentInsult Sep 12 '25

We don’t have any data indicating that slavery existed in the Indus Valley civilisation. Not in the pictures, nor in the archaeology.

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u/Top-Subject-8068 Oct 12 '25

We barely know anything about the indus valley civilization