The Horrifying Hidden History Of Britain’s Slave Trade | Britain's Slave Trade | Absolute History
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- This is the untold story of the greatest slaving nation in history. Up till now, Britain’s place in the history of slavery has been the country that abolished the international slave trade. The Old Corruption challenges the accepted version of the history of abolition, that the passive, suffering slaves were freed by benevolent white crusaders, revealing the corruption of the plantation owners, and how the inhuman treatment of African people was finally acknowledged.
Britain’s Slave Trade reveals the shameful truth behind this liberal facade, showing how the economic, social, and cultural life of Britain would have been unrecognizable without slavery. Britain’s Slave Trade explains how a middling European power transformed itself into the ruler of the waves, tracing the impact this had on the British way of life and taking in the Industrial Revolution, the beginnings of the Empire, and the birth of modern racism along the way. It also unearths startling evidence showing how many families that think of themselves as ‘pure’ English stock are in fact descended from slave ancestors
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The United Nations reports that child slavery still exists in Africa.
It exists in the US, Canada, parts of Europe, Africa, Asia, South America and the middle east. There isn't a single place on this earth where slavery doesn't continue
The slave trade was worse. 12,000,000 people were kidnapped, hands tied behind their backs, packed like sardines on a ship to Caribbean. If they were sick during the voyage they were thrown in the sea. No wages. Never returned to Africa. Never saw relatives again. Beaten and raped, poor diet. Worked for free in the hot Caribbean sun, no wages. Forced religion,forced to accept English names, lost culture and identity, traditions. That's worse
Compare and contrast the descendants of slaves and descendants of masters. Royal family was involved in the slave trade. They owned a company in Gambia
After Obama/CIA/USA GOVT removed Gaddafi it resulted in open air slave markets in Libya.
There’s slavery in the Middle East now.
In Haiti.
It’s in the USA, usually immigrants who do it to other immigrants.
😢
What does that have to do with what happened 500 years ago? Nothing. It's victim shaming. Everyone knows slavery has existed in every country in the world. But we are discussing a slave trade 500 years ago, not what is going on in Africa right now.
_"When the missionaries arrived, Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible."_
- Jomo Kenyatta (d. 1978)
That fuc up they as white people had the land but we the other people had the bible.
Whites took over all the land and force blacks and other races to believe in there religion rather they like or not.
So their gripe is with religion?
@@Not_Always No, religion is used as a colonizing and enslaving tactic. If you enslave someone's mind, you don't even need to put chains on them. So the white ppl assuaged their guilty minds and absolved themselves of guilt by claiming that Black ppl were not civilized because they didn't believe in Christianity. They also used the Bible to claim that it said that whites were entitled to enslave Black people because of this believe in the curse of Caanan. To this day I have heard white ppl say that it absolves white people of guilt because the Bible claims whites are allowed to enslave those with a "stain on their skin."
@@Not_Always no. Very clearly, no. You have to read it in a very deliberate way to get that message from it.
Wow. What a powerful quote. Love it.
Britain, France, Spain, China, Italy, they all have recent history of it. The Emirates are ripe with it for builders right now from Pakistan, Vietnam for child sex workers, Mexico for female sex workers.... look around it never stopped.
I learned a lot about the trade routes, etc., from this BUT very selfishly, I have to say that my stomach hurt the whole time I watched this. Nauseating how man can debase and exploit other men. Heartbreaking.
Who cares about the people who sold there own into slavery?😂 awww poor Africans killing and selling there own people are so stupid to buying into this crap lmao you do realise Africa still uses slaves? Just like the Middle East and many other nations😂
Its happening even these days but in a modern way, im a modern day slave owner which are undocumented immigrants working for very low money and hour for me, the only difference is that i treat them well i even invite them for a drink sometimes
@@omarespinosa9826 You got any jobs going ?
should make you strong....knowing is half the battle of becoming strong.
Ok
The horror of how the slaves were packed into ships was not mentioned.they were chained in the ships holds side by side. They would have had more room in a coffin one observer commented. Inadequate food and water was given, ten to fifteen per cent slaves died on any given voyage. No sanitation, excrete and vomit accumulated on the floor of the hold. If you were downwind of a slaver you could smell the stemch from miles away. The women were abused by the crews. Lashings were freely given if escape was attempted. After two hundred years or so, this abominable trade was abolished and Britain still congratulates itself on being so benevolent and kind in doing so.
If it was so gross , do you really think men would have touched those women?
Some would consider this a culling process...only a few could take such a journey today...if you survive back then, and could be a competent worker, you may be used in future breedings.
Imagine the offspring of such a journey...in a couple 100 years?
They are proud to congratulate themselves for ending slavery.
They are proud to congratulate themselves for ending slavery.
Very good video. Good info
Meanwhile parts of the world still have slaves and women are seen as commodities. You can’t change history of our past descendants but we should all work together to stop it in the future.
some women make a good living as commodities, by contrast, slavery was not voluntary
That doesn’t mean we don’t talk about the past. We can do both, talk about it and try and fight it now.
Right now people are too busy finger pointing about what historical events others were responsible for. The like sowing divisiveness as if world history isn't filled with despicable acts.
@@jaybee4118 I was responding to the OP's "women are seen as commodities" fight me over that and I'll call you a jealous busybody
@@happystarhappystar1477 I was responding to the OP too. I can’t stop it posting under your comment. If I’d been talking to you I’d have tagged you with your user name. I can’t easily do that with the OP.
“Greed”? How is selling enemy tribes you were at war with greed? They didn’t sell their own people. They sold people they didn’t even speak the same language as, or even believe in the same gods.
They were selling the true children of Israel
lol didn't you know, you can be white and different people but if you are black you're all the same people!
Still awful will never . forget . 😢
We were taught in school about slavery.😢 very sad,inhuman,evil that so many suffered,we need kindness,love,peace in this world,life is too short.❤❤❤
Were you taught about Roman slaves giving their name to the Slavs of east Europe?
Were you taught about the 1,000 year Arab slave trade where slaves were castrated to prevent mixing with the local bloodline?
Were you taught about the Barbary Corsairs raiding Cornwall and Ireland for slaves?
Were you taught about the Viking slave trade in England and Ireland?
Were you told Portugal was slave trading by 1520 and until 1865 but England only got involved in 1663?
Or were you just told it was all the British, blah blah, colonialism, blah,blah uniquely evil.....?
Who owned the slave boats?
Mostly the Arabs and Spaniards.
Jews
Masters did
How about a video on the African kingdom of Dahomey??
Now do the Slavic slave trade, that has Africans and Arabs coming into Slavic areas, for over 2000 years!!! LOL...Not likely!
This channel is about Great Britain! Not about slavery!
@@CheshiredGrin Hahahaha..... The truth always comes to the light.
@@catofthecastle1681 Ohhhhhhhhh yes it is!
@@catofthecastle1681 umm, the slave trade is British history, so it’s a British programme about Britain. Amazing.
Thanks for posting this video. Was informative and interesting to learn about.
THank you.
Thanks Africa for selling slaves😂
They lied saying slaves were brought frm Africa to Bristol, those people were of that land.
Interesting to listen to the African Ph.Ds saying that slavey existed in Africa and in a nut shell England taking opportunity to buy slaves from African kings to build wealth. One of the more balanced take on this type of history. Not just the white man involved, also the black man.
Harold Wong you are correct. The first slave trading was by Africans.
You don't get to play the blameless bystander when you are directly benefiting from crime. The Brits didn't caught the slaves themselves but offered the means and the market for slavery on an industrial scale and made boatloads of money out of it.
Then when the guilt and bad press started to be a little bit much and slavery wasn't as profitable, they decided to end some types of slavery. But depending on the part of the world they continued abetting, tolerating and profiting of it, playing the market and willing partner to slaveholder empires like the US and Brazil.
So it's not strange that the Brits try to look the other way or get upset when reminded that they have faces full of egg thanks to their history.
@@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179 So it wasn't the British navy that was patrolling the Atlantic for slave ships?
@@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179 shut up you hater 😆
@@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179if there was no demand there would not have been a supply
Another factor in the slave trade was colonialism and the pressure put on African rulers to produce such slaves
Colonialism in Africa didn’t start until the 1890s.
they made it easier to dispose of their captured enemies, and generally unwanted. I'd imagine...they traded guns and as she notes brass and iron...whatever to make one a ally...
People in general are ruled by GREED. ALL colors.
It's not a hidden history, look into the history of the slavs
It’s presenting it directly to people so they don’t have to.
So many comments going "... but what about?!" It's ridiculous. This documentary focuses on British involvement, because it is a British made film.
Aaron Lopez (1731-1782), born Duarte Lopez, was a merchant, slave trader, and philanthropist in colonial Rhode Island. Through his varied commercial ventures, he became the wealthiest person in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1761 and 1762, Lopez unsuccessfully sued the Rhode Island colonial government for citizenship.
1685? What about the the Scottish POWs in 1651?
i feel like everyone in the comments just turned the video off after hearing that african kings sold the slaves and didn't hear the rest of that side
Hidden? People of the Caribbean beg to differ.
Hell, the people of Britain beg to differ. It's not like it's a secret.
It’s a programme for British people. It’s been hidden to them. British kids have been told about the slave trade, but it’s always a bit wispy washy and doesn’t include many details. This is the details we don’t hear much. Hidden by not being talked about, if you like.
still one part is missing.and i am surprised that i did not hear it more mentioned.could be also that they were not involved in the BRISTOL slave trade_ it was the Arab middlemen who bought the - wares - from the black Chieftains who raided other tribes to -make slaves -.And got this waz competition out of the way .and fill up their own burses.
ZANZIBAR was their main station. the Arabs brought their - goods - there.and from there it was whoever had a ship. Crammed in as many men ,woman and children, if they still had survived, and sold them off at the slave markets in -America-. To work at the sugar cane or cotton fields...
This is a programme about the British involvement.
@@jaybee4118 so it doesn't mean anything about the rest?
@@jaybee4118 ua-cam.com/video/_NoWIZv96KU/v-deo.html
@@benediktmorak4409 this is a programme about the British involvement. It’s literally that simple. If you want a programme about the other parts, go to some tv producers or UA-camrs and ask them to create that documentary. This is a British tv show, made for a British audience, shown originally on British tv and now it’s on youtube. It’s about the British involvement, simple.
@@jaybee4118 amen....
africans should be given billions in compensations from former slavery countries - usa, united kingdom, spai , portugal, belgium, etc. africa should sue them at courts for this, but im affraid the court will not have iurisdiction.
Someone said, Africa was a beneficiary of slave trade by huge import of foodstuffs from Americas. A net gain 😮😮
Will there be a video about the middle east's role in the slave trade? It was way more brutal than the west' role. Even they admit that.
10-4 on that. The Muslim's of the Barbary Coast went up and down the European coast raping an pillaging collecting slaves for sultans and their own means. I don't see any videos on that. (lie, one or two). The conditions that the sultans kept white slaves were death cells, filled with hundreds of people with NO hope. (they actually made pictures for us, and kept good records).
So the West was better because the Islamists were even more brutal.
You're not helping your case my dude and definitely aren't in good company.
@@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179 look into the history, I think the stole about 10x the people the west did, and worked them literally to death.
This is a channel that focuses primarily on British history. Why would they make a video about that?
@@Crystalised24 That's not true. They do documentaries on all countries and cultures. (tons on Egypt to say the least, then the Tsars, then Greece, etc). Now, just the ones that are politically expedient to current policy.
The slave trade lasted over 300 years. That's a very long time. Slavery still continued after it was formally abolished, because it was a very profitable business. It was abolished because slaves started rebelling, plotted to kill masters, engaged in arson and some escaped to the hills. These were the reasons for abolishing this inhumane and cruel treatment of blacks. By that time, UK had become very rich ftom slavery. Goods like sugar, coffee and tobacco were shipped to UK for refinement. This process employed thousands of people who paid taxes. Slave masters were compensated to end slavery. However, the enslavement of people still continued after compensation was paid . Slaves received no salaries.
Buckingham palace was built by slaves.
There has always been slavery.
The Arab slave trade lasted for almost 1,000 years.
The transatlantic trade was 1530-1850.
Slavery was a symptom of modernization,proto-industrialisation.
Just like child labour, oppression of women, wars for resources ,short life expectancy.
It was called the past.
Learn some facts
Not sure I can fully trust this video 🤔
Until the widespead use of slaves was outlawed, slavery wasn't that unusual Most powerful nations used slaves and that goes back prior to written history. Slaves today are almost universally shown as African but the fact is that all nations have been subject to slavery at some time.
Ostrich, comes to mind after reading your comment on this documentary.
@@OldDunollieman You have a problem with facts?
True Chinese slaves are what make our clothing etc in factories. In the UK there's s** slave trading and exploitation of English volunerable young girls and women which is kept hidden though so you don't hear about it on news but there's always awareness posters and things going about especially on the police websites.
Every race has slaves throughout history but only the europeans raped, enslaved, and pillaged the african continet. End of story and justice Will be come no matter how you try to skew it.
@@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen what exactly is your point? Because slavery was common means we shouldn’t talk about what one of the worst perpetrators did? If that was the way we went about things we’d never talk about anything in history. It’s a history channel that specialises in presenting history documentaries from the UK and mostly about British history. It doesn’t matter who else did it, Britain did it and this is presenting that history to people that haven’t been taught the nitty gritty, the bits that have been white washed over quite a bit in the past and aren’t taught to British people this fully generally.
So again, why does the fact that other places did it mean there’s anything in this programme that shouldn’t be presented? What is the point you actually have?
there is a complexity to this history but it is shameful on all sides
May God give mercy. . yes IV known this for years . .sad rip to all . that passed due to others . ☮️ .
Human history is disgusting
around 14:00 15:00 it starts the "relativization"... someday the descendents of leopold II will discover a way to say that leopold was a congo savior!!
39:19 justifying the unjustifiable. An exercise in mental gymnastics if I ever saw one. Insufferable.
It’s sick.
Ah yes, the good old days.
Where do you think they bought them from?
If no one was buying no one would be selling.
@@captainwin6333 Shame the African chiefs and other leaders sold their people out then lol
@@captainwin6333 Africans had been trading each other for centuries, even before Europeans came
I think the opposite is true. If no one is selling, then no one is buying
They literally said right in the very beginning of the programme… it doesn’t change anything.
Britain was one of the first nations to outlaw slavery. Most of Africa, and a lot of the middle east still practice it.
Holy shit thank you!! I was omw to come write this same comment
They only outlawed it in certain regions because of court action by British sugar traders who operated in South America and who didn't have the use of slaves so Britain eventually outlawed slavery in the Carribbean but not in India or South Africa or anywhere else they operated.
Secondly, these slaves were required to worlk for nothing for their old masters for the next 7 years (slavery in all but name).
Thirdly, the compensation offered was not to the slaves but to their 'owners'.
A thoroughly unwarranted claim that Britain was being a good country by freeing them. It wasn't.
Nice try, but you don't get brownie points for outlawing the thing that you used to make yourself rich.
Also as others have mentioned Britain only abolished some of the slave trade, depending in the region the Brits let it be or continued profiting of it.
The British Empire sucked balls.
@@captainwin6333 Still freed them though.
@@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179 wow... now let's see your country's history.
Find a better spot for an ad break! Do you care or not?
Blame UA-cam for ad break timing, not the video's Creator. Creators have no say in when the ad breaks happen.
Thank you.
We have a book "The Royal African War Elephant". It is the first of its kind collection of depictions of Sub-Saharan Empires and kingdoms taming training and mounting African elephants as depicted by cartographers and traveloggers of the days. Please pick up a copy and view the missing pages of history for a clear understanding of the continent. The People, the Kingdoms and Our World.
Research those peoples that owned the ships that were used for slavery
This video is heavy on it's really the Africa fault. When chef kings resisted , the burnt it down. Look up The Benni Kingdom of Nigeria. This doc is very one side.
Britain's first "slaves" were indentured servants. Not on the same level with Chattel Slavery. Indentured servants became free after their "debt" was paid, once free they got land, in the new world this just two examples. African slaves couldn't even get their 40 arches and the mule so STOP with the bull. Trying any way you can to minimize, wht happened. Accept it, unfortunately we have.
When I was at school we were taught about the slave trade. London, Liverpool and Bristol were the biggest slave ports but there were others. We new that Africans sold slaves to the traders in an extension of a already large business within Africa. We were also taught that Britain was not the first slave trading country, the Vikings, the Romans, the ancient Egyptians and many other were slave trading for centuries, and most of their slaves were white. The slave trade in all its forms is a terrible thing, and it's still ongoing in Africa, the middle East and in much of the world in the form of the sex traffickers. England was the first country to ban the slave trade
Really I never new that
Did Portugal ban slavery earlier anyway, by thirty four years?
Your last sentence isn’t true and the rest is irrelevant as this is a story focused on the British part in the slave trade. I also would like to see a citation for your claim of most Egyptian slaves being white.
I’m leaving.
@@SlapstickGenius23 what's your source please?
I hate when people try to make indentured servitude seem like it was like slavery IT WAS NOTHING AT ALL COMPARED TO THE CHATTLE SLAVERY AFRICANS WENT THROUGH
or the USA prison system
The Scottish POW "indentured servants" from 1651 were treated horribly.
I think the US corrupted the already corrupt practice of indentured servitude. I'm an American disgusted by our history and our effort to hide it or downplay it.
There is nothing exceptional wicked about anything the Europeans did. The only exceptionalism was in their abolitionism. Good to see recognition of the source of the slave trade, it was a truly multiracial practice.
_"They came with a Bible and their religion, stole our land, crushed our spirit... and now tell us that we should be thankful to the 'Lord' for being saved."_
- Chief Pontiac (d. 1769)
Did you know the Native Americans had more slaves(Other Native Americans) before the Europeans came to the Americans, than the US and Europeans combined, had in the 1800s?
Oh, the Native Americans were the worst!
Aside from their brutality and horrific barbarism, long after the European world ended slavery, if only in their sphere of influence in the world, and the United States brought an end to the practice with the passing of the 13th Amendment, they continued the practice.
In fairness, maybe in Canada they didn't have to come back and pass additional legislation specifically to address the problem with the backwards Indian Nations continuing slavery after it was prohibited throughout the British Empire.
I agree they should be thankful. Gods word the Bible has the power to make us all free.
If not we would all be slaves to sin.
“Native” Americans… Killed and stole land from each other for centuries, then cried when a more advanced civilisation conquered them…
@@colonelsanders1349Native Americans seldom if ever commit genocide upon one another. They weren't religiously motivated to commit genocide like protestants were, nor were they intent on building reservations for eachother, nor did they treat eachother like subhumans. You're comparing apples to oranges and looking stupid in so doing
49.6 million people are enslaved today in the world
According to the latest Global Estimates of Modern Slavery (2022) from Walk Free, the International Labour Organization and the International Organization for Migration: 49.6 million people live in modern slavery - in forced labour and forced marriage. Roughly a quarter of all victims of modern slavery are children.
Thanks, but what does that have to do with this video?
@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 Over the entire period of the Atlantic slave trade (1526-1867) 12.6 million people were captured as slaves. @ladylizziskywalker is just pointing out how crazy it is that there are still almost 50 million people currently enslaved
@@joemorgan9801 I’m aware. However we must keep context in mind. There were far fewer people back then.
@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 don't worry, I'm not saying "suck it up, it's worse now than back then". It just baffles me that this vile thing still goes on now. It seems to be a skipped part of the subject in school that there are that many people still enslaved
@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 attempts to distract attention and focus....
typical guilt response behavior.
It was never hidden. That's a lie.
Most Britons know very little about the slave trade, which is barely taught in the schools. Their main argument is that UK ended slavery. Research it. Slavery still continued after compensation was paid to masters. This brutality lasted over 300 years.
England was involved in the Slave trade from 1663-1807 and a few hundred British owned slaves until 1834.
So no. You are wrong.
@@stephfoxwell4620 slav
Slavery was abolished in 1807. Slaves were not freed until 1838
Masters were compensated to free slaves but refused because of the huge profits involved in this cruel trade
@@user-xu9ib9cd6d The article is about the slave trade. The British abolished it in 1807.
The Portuguese did not stop until 1864. All British slave owners were compensated for loss of assets. £20 million. About £7 billion in today's money.
But so anxious is the article to condemn the British as uniquely evil and the worst that they get their facts in a muddle. Like you.
@@stephfoxwell4620 am telling u the British benefitted tremendously from slave trade. Buckingham palace was built by slaves. Why did it take over ,200 years to end it? Goods like coffee , tobacco and cocoa were shipped to Bristol and Liverpool for refinement. This process employed thousands who paid taxes. Bristol, Oxford and Cambridge universities benefitted from the slave trade. They got donations. Robert Colson donated to schools in Bristol. His statue was dumped I to the sea by protesters. Your treasury and school's benefitted. So why did it take over 200 years of cruelty to end it?
Britons do not know much about what happened on these plantations
We ate moving away from the word "negro" in 🇺🇸
Now do a video of the 1400 year muslim Arab slave trade, which by the way is still going on in some African countries.
all this attention to slavery, reparations, self shaming and so on is a thing just because the british are more empathetic than people in other countries. Go tell africans and arabs how ashamed are they or their past slave trade.
I'm italian... one could blame the romans for everything... they couldn't care less.
I understand it's a not so "glorious" past (slavery at least) in some way but it was a different world c'mon.
All this self loathing coming from english people makes me sad.
A great country with beautiful very welcoming people.
For the millions who have died by your countries’ greed, do you think the victims would call you empathetic whilst you spread apologia for genocide?
Don't flatter yourself, you Italians were goosesteping and giving the salute less than 75 years ago and gassing Ethiopians less than 80. That you're a new country that sucked at Imperialism do not makes you more "empathetic".
@@maxismills Boo hoo, their country was better at killing than your country.
If we forget our past, we might just make the same mistakes all over again. Remembering the bad things doesn't mean self-loathing. It means we know what was done wrong and how to be better people in the future. That's how we become empathetic.
@@Tuonenkalla You also have to remember the facts, however. Such as the fact that Africans sold their own people into slavery, and had been doing so for years before the Europeans arrived.
Read “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews” by the Nation of Islam.
LIKE usa want Britain,Ukraine want Rssr.West bengal way bongladesh!,,Why,Why not.
4:00 they’ve moved on
Well said my African brother they forget about us and give great homage to the Jews but our ancestors were the first Holocaust.
Just a part of the trade it was, certainly!!
Oh yeah that's what they did. 😢
What about the blk irish scots welch and English who oliver cromwell deported to the Americas, actually more blk slaves came frm England than Africa
Strange to see different summaries, opinions or angles cascading about it within the same video, doesn't seem Absolute at all TBH
Why?
these videos never blow up sadly
TL; DW. Did you cover the many years and British lives given _stopping_ slavery? The UK used its navy to basically blockade large parts of Africa to almost unilaterally put a stop to the overseas international slave trade, but gets almost no recognition or credit for this.
the greatest slaving nation in history is most probably the Ottomans.
The Ottomans, or the people from that land, were enslaving Slovic people for thousands of years.
That would be Great Britain my dude.
That pirate island sucks.
@@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179 You're so cringe... Britain ended slavery, muslims today still practice it. You must be a delusional alphabet soup to have such a lack of sense and awareness. Stop talking and liking your own comments, cringelord
@@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179 Second most probably Barbary Coast Pirates or Arabic Tribes
@@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179 What country are you from?
KEITH BLAKELOCK.
Will we also get a documentary on how The British Empire stopped the slave trade world wide?
Well, that’s just a lie, so no, obviously not.
@@jaybee4118 It's not a lie.
@@Not_Always so give a citation that makes the claim. Slaves are still traded, so how was it ever stopped? Britain (technically) stopped, but they didn’t do much to stop it elsewhere and as it’s still ongoing in many ways… there’s literally no way what you said is true. But please, do enlighten me how I’m wrong.
...They didn't.
It wasn't just Black African's that were slaves, it also was whites, Native Americans and people of India as well.
Exactly but the black people always make the big song and dance about it. Even now from their cultures the racism card is thrown about far too much. Us white English suffer a ton more racism in our own country but yet can't say anything about it as apparently we are being racist and racism towards a white person doesn't exist. I've been victim of hate crime thrown abuse and name called and even threatened etc before and when I called the police and said I want to report it as its racism and I was threatened (BTW I'm white and the other one was indian/asian) the police told me its not racism and they'll do me for hoax call so out the phone down. Wtf
@@5u1c1dal24 As well the police should do. Racism against a majority is not a thing. Stop making hoax calls, you racist arse.
@@5u1c1dal24you’re sick.
The comments are gonna be a dumpster fire I already know it. Only people with no humanity would object to this video, argue over what colonizing country was the least cruel or who abolished the trade the earliest. As much as I expected it, it’s still disappointing.
Yep, 3 hours later and it’s a nightmare. I’m not ashamed of the slave trade, I had nothing to do with it. I’m ashamed of my people from my country who want to pretend nothing happened, or if it did, it wasn’t that bad and the Arabs and/or Africans did worse. If doesn’t matter if they did, THIS is what the British did.
@@jaybee4118 Exactly. I understand that accountability can be hard for those who've had the privilege of having history written with respects to their comfort but it's 2023!! With so much information out in this world theres no need to be willfully ignorant, racist, and gaslight with vile comments. Especially because we still feel the effects of slavery to this day while others actively benefit 2, 3, 400 years later.
@@iimezimouseii3024 FAAAAACCCTTTTSSSS!!!
Most of you clearly failed to make it past 1:04 lol why so defensive about history?
Let's talk about the slavery in Africa China and the Middle East today.
Its going on Right Now.
Classic whataboutism.
@@jaybee4118 yep, don’t look over there bc it makes me uncomfortable…… Instead, let’s talk about something else 🙉🙈🙊
You forgot to mention slave trade and colonial exploitation in each and every single one of your documentaries about mansions, art collections and luxury lifestyles of the English aristocracy and nobility that you post regularly in this same UA-cam channel. None of the characters you applaud in those videos would've ever made their fortunes if they didn't profit from triangular trade and plundering of Britain's Commonwealth (the name consisting of two lies in each of the words it consists of - the only land it profited from it was England and the English, and only the tiny, privileged minority within it).
So, documentaries about history should not be made and uploaded because you find it unpleasant. What on earth are you babbling about?
It’s definitely mentioned in some, often in fact. Of course, this channel doesn’t produce the programmes they show, they present them on a licence from the BBC and other UK channels. But yes, it’s not mentioned nearly enough, even when it is often in other programmes. The ones previous to the 17th century aren’t likely to go into it as it hadn’t happened by then. There’s a lot of programmes that won’t talk about it because it is actually entirely irrelevant.
Scotland also profited from the slave trade. There’s one programme from a Scottish presenter that goes into it in detail. I don’t remember the name unfortunately. Here’s a page about it though www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/slavery-and-the-slave-trade So no, it wasn’t only England and the English. I can only assume England gained more, but then there have generally always been more people and more cities in England. None of this means I think the English aren’t to blame, they absolutely are. And the fact people were still being paid for the slave trade until very recently with my tax money makes me shudder with disgust. That anyone in any age, but especially the very, very recent modern day would knowingly take money for that is unbelievable to me.
It should all be talked about more, I completely agree, but it’s not never talked about and it can’t be in every documentary. Though certainly rarely with enough detail. What’s the point in talking about it in a documentary about anything before 1663 though?
Constantly trying to discredit the British but I don’t buy it
There are probably more slaves than ever now! Sex trafficking etc. So tragic. Let it go...the past is the past. And now Africa is generally dirt poor!!
So why haven't you done this important documentary earlier about 10 years ago!!!
This is from 1999, lmao.
@@Meladjusted: I had no idea it was made 10 years ago! If I had known I would have asked for 20 years ago before UA-cam or on PBS or its equivalent in England.
What about European slaves?
So human capital
get woke go broke
Suppose it rhymes…otherwise makes no sense 🙄
"This is the untold story of the greatest slaving nation in history."
There are at least a dozen nations ahead of them on that list, former and current. They weren't even the greatest during the trade of Africans to the Americas, Portugal was. Yes, Britain played a major part, yes, the slave trade made fundamental changes to the character of the nation... and this is all openly talked about and well known. It's not notable to abolish something you weren't doing, after all. With such a hysterical and conspiratorial thinking description, I have no interest in feeding your channel numbers. What the heck were you thinking, that PragerU needed competition on BSing? Unsubbed.
we care not
This Channel has some pretty dubious and made up stuff, but this takes the biscuit.
Britain was founded in 1707. England had been involved in slave trading alongside the Dutch since 1663.
Our involvement lasted just 144 years until 1807.
Nothing like as long as the Portuguese, Spanish or French or even Danes and Germans.
The Portuguese, Ottomans and Arabs had much bigger slave trades than ours.
Bristols port was becoming obsolete by 1750. Overtaken by Liverpool and Glasgow.
Get some facts rather than listening to race grifters.
The only real difference between the more modern nation/empires and their previous counterparts was that they reached a level of technology and industry where the need for slaves wasn't as necessary, along with a more systematic and widespread keeping of records and that they survived as intact national entities to this day in one form or another. Africans enslaved other Africans, Western Asians and Europeans and much as the other two enslaved themselves and each other in turn. Almost everyone should share the guilt of slavery, but for some reason it is mostly hoisted more on Western Civilization, just because of recency bias and their more current emphatic ideologies
Some weak justifications for the big demand by western nations for enslaved people! If there had not been a demand by these supposedly "civilized" countries, there would have not been any European slave trade!
And history shows that many empires, Roman for one, allowed slaves to become free men eventually. Western slavery did not do this to any kind of extent.
And in the US, there is a subset of people still think slavery was not a bad thing. Slavery is never justified no matter whether "everyone else did it" is your excuse! Whatever countries were involved in it should own up to their terrible past!
Sure, that means that there's absolutely nothing special about Britain and the US, however they have done the greatest damage by being the most powerful and recent Empires.
@@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179 arguably Spain, France and Portugal did more damage, but yeah the UK and the US are the most guilt ridden nations, by choice, and therefore become the focus of the issue
@@meep0455 There's nothing special whatever about the UK and the US in this issue.
Words and self loathing are extremely cheap, but unless they do something of significance they're in the same boat as the Dutch, the Spanish and the Portuguese shameless bastards that they are.
Sounds out of the face holes of their liberally inclined citizens, do not impress people outside the anglo bubble very much and frankly people see through it. By the way this isn't a pass for their right wingers that won't even offer that.
@@meep0455 Rubbish - The reason there are not many Black people in Middle Eastern countries, where millions were transported as slaves, is that most of the male Black slaves were castrated in their early teens. Only 1 in 3 survived the process. As Eunuchs they then could no longer father children.
The whole world was guilty ,mate
How about the untold story of AFRICAN slavery?
Slavery is slavery . All races have been enslaved not just African . This is the story of slavery no one group had it worse then the other .
It goes against the oppressed minority narrative and forces non-whites to take accountability of their own actions and calls into question their precious pathetic victimhood status so no they won't show it.
I was about to type in the same thing
They bought them manly from african slave traders.
@Deviation Sumpter Yeah, yeah, you're right...
BUT!
They try to make America the bad and skip everyone else.
royals don't carem
Why with all that wealth couldn't the African relatives have been brought to Bristol to see him a decade or so before his death?
The aversion to this documentary (as manifested in the comments here) is very depressing. Brits, who are generally so proud of their history, sometimes handle this part of it very badly I think. It's very telling. If this is their/your attitude towards this subject in 2023, one can only Imagine what it must have been like back in the day. Jesus Christ.
Probably because the documentary leaves certain key facts out. Perhaps if journalists were more honest about the slave trade, then people would react better.
@@colonelsanders1349 Nah, you just can't handle the truth.
@@colonelsanders1349What's in it is serious enough to be highlighted. Nothing of what's been left out ("there were African slavetraders too/Britain was first to abolish etc) diminishes the gravity of the story told here.
@@batrachian149 The truth that Africans sold their own people as slaves and had been doing so for a very long time? I can accept that lol
That's because most of our families had sod-all to do with it. From 1600 to 1850 my direct ancestors on my fathers side ran a country inn in kent and on my mothers side they were farm labourers in Ireland, neither likely to profit from or be involved in the slave trade. So to accuse "Britain" and say its "Britains slave trade" is a grossly false accusation. There were those in Britain who did make money from the slave trade, yes, but they are not "Britain" , neither did they make all their riches from slavery. The Atlantic slave trade was one leg of a 3 leg journey. You might also want to look at what the conditions were like for the majority of the British population during that period, it wasn't that different to that of the slaves and actually in the case of London Crawlers toward the end of the period, probably worse as they were of no value to anyone at all and treated as accordingly. Also remember that the entire slave trade works out to be about 1000 slaves per week over the period in which it occurred, of which the uk shipped about 400.
This is a pathetic and blatantly obvious attempt of justification...and having some freemason black woman to support your narrow narrative is just so condescending. Very poorly researched.
Lies
Earlyyy
Not a word about the Irish slaves. The first slaves of the British Empire
This isn’t about that. Maybe go to a TV producer and suggest it?
Why would that be mentioned - it's complete fabrication.
Off course not there white it don’t play into the agenda
Wow awesome research!
History has to be entirely objective, this video isn't. Pretty horrible. In brief: the British took up a part of the existing global slave trade, didn't capture any slaves but bought them from those Africans who did, made a lot of money in a dreadful way, national sentiment changed, slavery was outlawed nationally, imperially and then the British enforced that globally. Also, the fact is that both the Portuguese and the Arabs traded FAR more slaves, but - like the fact that Africans sold other Africans - that doesn't fit with the narrative.
The video is titled "Britain's Slave Trade" not "World Slave Trade." Portuguese and Arab slave trading is outside the scope of the video. As is Mesopotamian slave trading, if you want to go that far back.
Look at you denying history.
@@ulemuphiri8489 provide primary evidence sources to prove what you claim. 👍
Yes, everyone is well aware of Britain's slavery, it's not hidden.
Why does everyone only ever focus on France, Britain and Spain as if we were the only countries to ever indulge in it?
Every, single, country at one point or another in history is guilty of slavery, this is ridiculous.
Because the wokies hate white people
No, not every single country is guilty of slavery. That's a truism you can't possibly prove, nor would you be willing to prove your point anyway, it's all on bad faith.
The point is that there was no other slave trade as profitable, wide ranging or as industrially brutal as the transatlantic slave trade.
Also, no one is around to benefit from the Roman or Barbary coast slave trade, whereas the majority of British families involved in the slave trade are still just as rich and powerful as they were, and have faced exactly zero consequences for their crimes
The point of focusing on bad things is to learn from them. That's what REAL history is. If people like you had their way we'd never hear about the bad things the rich and powerful do, and no one would learn
@@boozecruiser Modern day slavery is alive and well, and extremely profitable.
I'm not even going to dignify this bs with a response.
"You can't possibly prove your point but here's my point with no evidence that's just right!"
Come back to me with facts, not opinions.
Im actually quite disgusted that this channel wants to fan the flames of the nonsense crap about Britain and the slave trade. All for woke points. Congratulations.
Salty Brit.
I'm actually quite disgusted by your comment. Woke?! You obviously can't handel basic facts.
@@bisratezra8247 Ironic, because this doc ignores many facts…
@@colonelsanders1349 That doesn't make the content of this documentary "nonsens crap".
@@bisratezra8247 it does it it paints a completely ONE-sided picture of any People, regardless of if they're white or European... If you leave out important aspects that supported the events described here, then specifically a type of hit piece. Wouldn't you be mad if they did that to any other race about their own historical or current flaws? An education from one-perspective that purposefully leaves out important information for the purpose of creating a negative opinion is the equivalent to brainwashing...
It's worth noting that grievance archeology is a favourite pastime (no pun intended) of Britain's detractors. Notably CP and other foreign influences who thrive on sewing division and subverting the great achievements of this nation
Britain was very successful at laundering their crimes and malfeasance, a quality the Americans inherited at times interestingly enough.
That's why grievance archeology as you call it is a necessity. Since they were sneaky, unlike say, the French and the Belgians who were particularly inept.
But you lot aren't better than bloodthirsty Russians. Well you're better than Russians I'll give you that, but that's not saying much.
No. It's not "worth noting".
Britain subjugated countless millions of peoples all over the world. The Empire was a cruel and arrogant institution fueled by the delusion that British culture was superior to any other. That delusion continues to this day.
it's the same tactic used to demoralize any western country and get them to disown their land
@anna Anna: Yes, it is worth noting. If you don't like Britain you can always vote with your feet.
Life isnt fair, me and my sister are modern day slaves owner, i have a construction company with 15 employees, the 10 of them are undocumented imigrants from mexico and honduras and i only pay them 12 dollars an hours. My sister has a cleaning company with 11employees mostly also from mexico and honduras and undocumented, she pays them only 9 an hour, me and my sister are investing the profit of both company on real estate in the name of other people in case something happen.
Dont hijack and minimize people being sold as slaves and say you have it just as bad. Multiple things can be devasting at the same time. Tell your story and share your frustrations in your own space, not this one.
The narrator sounds really bitter and defensive and resentful. She's got a tone. The history is what is it, just report it. It is a fascinating documentary.
Sad who really sell there people 😢
Odd ow little is said on who the sold those slaves to Britian. Not like Slave merchants went beyond the Coastal areas of trade to pillage into villages ... very Liberal guilt oriented documentary
God save the Queen
or Gold. slaves. the Queen.
(What does it mean ?)
"Britain’s Slave Trade reveals the shameful truth behind this liberal facade, showing how the economic, social, and cultural life of Britain would have been unrecognizable without slavery.
Britain’s Slave Trade explains how a middling European power transformed itself into the ruler of the waves, tracing the impact this had on the British way of life and taking in the Industrial Revolution, the beginnings of the Empire, and the birth of modern racism along the way.
It also unearths startling evidence showing how many families that think of themselves as ‘pure’ English stock are in fact descended from slave ancestors."
Please I have to say that the slaves were not African, they were Israelites. The Africans didn't like the Israelites because we had our own laws and customs. You have also forgotten to tell people about the role Scotland played. My ancestors was deported from Scotland to Antigua to be a slave. This happened just after the English civil wars. King HenryVlll and Thomas Cromwell started it and was carried on by his son Oliver Cromwell. The slaves from Scotland and Ireland were mostly black. Here's a book that you should read...The Memwars of John Mckay, you will also find that the physical description and the portraits does not add up. This was means that they are hiding the true identity of the real people who owned the lands.
The Scottish are British. The Scottish were also part of buying, shipping and selling slaves from Africa. I’m not sure what you mean by the slaves from Scotland and Ireland were Black? If you mean white, then you’re more than likely talking about indentured servitude and that isn’t the same thing at all.
@@jaybee4118 Hi.I am black my ancestors were black. I didn't make myself clear .English history taught at schools persum that it this country was ruled by white European people, but that's not true. There's a lot of true history that has been kept away from everyone. Here's a link that they are trying to hide from everyone, please type it in the way I have written it. I am sure you will find it interesting...Ps..the powers that be are making very difficult to get this information........Real history www.....Good hunting! Bless
WOW, it did not take long for the slavery and empire apologists to arrive lol
I haven’t seen anyone apologising for Empire, just stating facts that this documentary conveniently leaves out.
@@colonelsanders1349 AKA empire apologia
@@batrachian149 Facts are “empire apologia”
What? Lol
@@colonelsanders1349 what facts did it leave out? I’m seeing a lot of whataboutism mostly. Other countries being involved in the slave trade has nothing to do with the British history in it. So yeah, it all amounts to empire apologia.