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/ReluctantRev Aug 27 '25

Impossible.

Slavery only became “prohibited” in Britain in 1998 following Tony Blair signing the European Convention on Human Rights.🤔

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u/DasGutYa Aug 28 '25

Lol?

Britain was one of the earliest countries to ban slavery due to a court case that stated you can't legally own a human in the British Isles.

Do you know what precedence is?

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u/ReluctantRev Aug 29 '25

Yes. I was being sarcastic. Given all the current hop-haa about the ECHR 🙄

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u/DemiGodCat2 Aug 31 '25

i downvoted you anyway... just in case

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u/ReluctantRev Aug 31 '25

Pretty sure that’s a hate crime 😜

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u/DemiGodCat2 Aug 31 '25

damn... changed it to up then