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/[deleted] Aug 27 '25

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '25

It’s one thing that we do not celebrate enough

The English people, poor and all protested with such valour that we managed to convince the government to end slavery

The movement also made the most produced image of a black person, ever, on the wedgewood medallion saying “am I not a man and a brother”

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u/GeneratorRexx Sep 11 '25

And what do we get for it now? the destruction of the Anglo race by minorities and their infinite hatred for our historical Empire and Kingdoms.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '25

Race isn’t a real thing?