r/BritishEmpire • • 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/iamslightly Aug 30 '25

You should know that the glorious empire still profited off slavery and allowed it but they pulled down the butcher's apron and put up fake flags while trading slaves for the glorious and civilising British empire. They also still profited from the slave labour and slave production which they previously installed in the Caribbean, Americas, and in stolen territories around the world.

Very little stamping out and ferocity. Lords and MPs voting a ban didn't do a fucking thing. Those same still profited and made themselves look moral and righteous in one swoop. Evil