> It's fairly common for British people to fixate on the fact that the UK was largely single-handedly responsible for abolishing slavery in the west (via the Na

> It's fairly common for British people to fixate on the fact that the UK was largely single-handedly responsible for abolishing slavery in the west (via the Navigation Acts in particular), while somewhat discounting the fact that the UK had previously been a huge part of the problem. And also ignoring the fact that banning the trade in slaves isn't the same as banning slavery; and ignoring the fact the when slavery finally was banned it wasn't banned everywhere; and most of the slaves became "apprentices" (ie still unpaid) for a few years before becoming free; and that reparations for slavery were paid: to the slave owners, not to the slaves. There's a bunch of stuff about colonialism that people in the UK refuse to engage with.