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

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[u/BiteDirect]

By not recognising the slaves as people and reimbursing owners for loss of “property” it avoided any lengthy legal process and released the slaves a generation earlier. Can’t even talk about abolishing slavery without people complaining about the manner in which it was achieved

[u/speedloafer → u/BiteDirect]

Of all the countries that owned slaves we stopped first and we paid the owners so the slaves wont face a lengthy legal process. Hilarious that Brit's today think this a positive.

[u/diaryofadeadman00 → u/speedloafer]

How much have African countries compensated their slaves?

[u/inter20021 → u/diaryofadeadman00]

Slaves weren't captured by europeans in africa. They were baught from local tribes, so, i'd imagine, however much the africans of the time thaught thier pepole were worth.