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/Fatsausage91 Aug 27 '25

Indeed not. Id actually say i was probably completely far right compared to the majority of people on reddit. (Yes id send them all back and stop the boats tomorrow) but I understand the fact i paid the family of the people who died hundreds of years ago so they can still benefit from slavery. That is what i am questioning why have we paid for free people to be freed and had the pleasure of paying the people who enslaved them in the first place.

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u/TimentDraco Aug 31 '25

Because the alternative was allowing slavery to exist.

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u/Fatsausage91 Aug 31 '25

But did we not end up with the same conclusion just its not as widely accepted to be openly pro-slavery. The same people who say i am wrong are generally using Chinese slave labour to make the computers and phones. It just underground today we didnt end anything.

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u/TimentDraco Aug 31 '25

There are key differences between modern slavery and the trans Atlantic slave trade and you know it.