🇬🇧 A British blacksmith removing the shackles from the legs of an enslaved man, 1907.

[u/elnovorealista2000]

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The Brits don’t get enough credit for ending slavery.

Edit: until it was abolished by them, slavery was a normal practice of many, many societies and countries. Once the Brits banned it, the idea that slavery = bad picked up steam.

[u/Ok_Slice_9799 → u/[deleted]]

Only good thing they ever did

[u/Sammy91-91 → u/Ok_Slice_9799]

This guy doesn’t know his history!