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>I actually mentioned that: “English merchants where happy to participate in the American slave trade” You didn't actually mention that slavery was legal in ma
by fsckboy 4y ago
>I actually mentioned that: “English merchants where happy to participate in the American slave trade”
You didn't actually mention that slavery was legal in many British crown colonies including the American colonies, which wasn't just "happy participation by merchants", but was day to day life for many UK subjects. "Slavery ended in the British Empire after the Slavery Abolition Act came into play in 1833", about 30 years before it ended in the US, a former British Colony independent less than 100 years at that time, a short time by any standards.
- Retric 4y agoThe 1833 act only impacted an economically insignificant number of people, which is why it could pass. Notably it excluded lands held but the British East India company. “Between 1808 and 1860, the West Africa Squadron captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans. They resettled many in Jamaica and the Bahamas” and no that’s not a euphemism for enslaving them in Jamaica and the Bahamas.