@@garethwigglesworth8187 if that’s the case, it’s really sad. I’ve learnt that history is not straight forward, the assumptions we make are often wrong. There’s always 2 sides to an arguments. What ever the reason for freeing slaves, it did happen. That should be highlighted and put in its proper context. Peace and love from a Sikh !
@@runcornbalsall130 history is written by the Victor and in WW2 communism won the war. General Patern beloved we should have pushed on and fraught the Soviets after the defeat of the Nazis we didn't and shortly after he was killed in a minor traffic accident. His postmortem is still sealed by National Security convention.
@@pipmill7076 It wasn't about the money though. The British Empire accrued such a large debt in fighting the slave trade, that it was only finally paid off in the 2010's. And prior to this, when they were taking part in the trade, vast sums of money were being made and taxed.
Slavery was made illegal in Britain in 1068 by William the Conqueror. Any slave arriving on English soil was automatically a free man, so less of a 180 than many countries.
@@patrickowen2460 if we are going to be technically or historically correct, the active enslavement of people in England was abolished at that time. When they were enslaved somewhere else caused a legal grey area until a certain case (can't remember the name) caused that universal decree.
Grudging approval by a man who is constantly critical of the UKs race relations, we aren’t perfect in this country but people flock here to benefit from one of the fairest and most tolerant states in the world.
Is there a greater reason for a place to have a name. Freetown. I have heard the name hundreds of times before with ever knowing why. God bless the British Navy.
Freetown was originally Sierra Leone (the British Colony), but when it became apparent that returning freed slaves back to the nations that had enslaved them, was a stupid idea. We sliced out a bit of Africa, created a new nation for freed slaves, and transferred the name to that new nation. Then they had to come up with a name for what was once the colony... and Freetown is certainly a very fitting name.
@@davetdowell yes, the practicalities meant Britain had to set up Sierra Leone. This was the age of sail and even if they could identify where the slaves came from they couldn't guarantee they wouldn't be enslaved again if returned. It was not a perfect solution but about the only practical one.
One important thing is forgotten in the slave trade story of Africa. It actually started in North Africa with the Barbary Pirates taking slaves from Europe for the Otterman Empire. Possibly as many as 1.25 million were taken into slavery as far north as Ireland whole villages were wiped out. Before Europeans arrived in Africa, African villages would take on salves from other villages they attacked and originally Africans sold slaves to Europeans. This doesn't mean that Europe was right. But the picture is not as simple as it looks.
lol, pardon me, but it started long before that, the taking of european slaves by the berbers was the beginning of the end not the beginning, it led the europeans acting with military force to get restitution from the cities where slaves were traded, to get people back, & to get promises from those citiesto cease trading the citizens of the aggressor nations forcing the terms the mediterranean slave trade was older than rome before that, before the europeans put an end to much of it also africans never stopped selling africans into slavery through the entire atlantic slave trade, they still were when it ended, the death of the slave trade likely crippled the economies of some west african nations that had built themselves up through it
@Jo Sm the UN estimate their are 80million slaves in the world today (1 generation). 3million in Pakistan, 8million in India, should this be on the cirriculum alongside the 200 year old Atlantic trade? If you want inclusion and equality, I'd say so.....
@@jesusjohnny8286 Sounds good to me. Slavery should be abolished everywhere. People have grown too comfortable with the idea that it is a thing of the past. And they are wrong. It is a ghastly thing that is still alive and kicking.
We in Britain must be honest about the history of the slave trade and our involvement in it. But that has to include the crusade this country fought against the practice and thr great expense borne by ordinary British taxpayers to do so. Among European nations, the UK benefitted most from transatlantic slavery. But far and away it contributed most to ending the practice once and for all.
The now often heard lie is that the British Empire was built on slavery. But ending slavery bankrupted England, because England financed the freeing of slaves by borrowing millions of pounds, a debt that was only paid off 30 years ago.
The issue is we as Brits have never been ashamed of our history but leftest want to just paint the Empire as this great evil and anything that would put the Empire in a good standing like abolishion of slavery is thrown back in our faces with you still took part in so it doesn't count and then they are saying songs like Rule Britannia are inherently racist because of the slave trade even though Rule Britannia was written after the slave trade was abolished.
In 1833 Britain used 40% of its national budget to purchase the freedom of every slave in the Empire. This entailed borrowing so much money to carry this out under the Abolition Of Slavery Act that it wasn't paid off until 2014. So, living British people paid for the ending of the Slave Trade.
William Lecky “The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.”
David doesn't mention his birth city of Lagos was forced by the Royal Navy to stop slaving in 1851. Indeed, Britain struggled to stop slavery in Nigeria right to independence. Lagos even renamed it's independence square after a local slave trader. You can visit her statue there today.
I 50 year old now. And in my schooling in England I was always told about the injustice of the evil slave trade and Britain part in it.. the piont in my education about it was was to except the wrongs this country did in the past. Learn from them and be I force in the world against things like this... but to hear the way the media and people talk today you think we were been educationed different.. we were moving in the right direction. Now we have gone backwards. We should now be educationed to hate our history. Except the bad things. But don't forget the good too. That not racist. Its Learning the hole thruth. Nothing is ever black or white. Life is more complicated than that.
Then we are going forward, its been quite a few years since I was in school but even though we were taught about our terrible part in the slave trade but we were also taught about the better part, us abolishing the slave trade as well.
We were taught about slavery in school many years ago the inhumanity of it the conditions the many deaths thathappened I hope all schools have this aswell
@@peterwilson6509 yes, but these days, that's ALL we're taught. We are NOT taught about Britain's hand in ending the slave trade, we are not taught about the 20,000 British sailors who gave their lives to fight slavery, and we are not taught about the case of James Somerset, and the beginning of Britain's fight against slavery.
@@idcgaming518 I assume the reason for that is similar to Germany teaching WW1 and 2. We are too ashamed about being a main part of it to look at any positive outcomes. They teach people it's strictly bad so no one gets any funny ideas. I do think they should teach people that Britain isn't a country to be ashamed of but I'd have to guess that's the reason.
Honestly, 6% is a hugely impressive number when you consider the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the sheer size of the area the west Africa squadron was trying to blockade.
As well as the West Africa Squadron, the Royal Navy sent a fleet to bombard Algiers and forced the end of the Barbary slave trade, later the Africa Squadron transferred its main effort to the East African coast and fought a long, dangerous fight supressing the slave trade on that coast.
They only stopped patrolling East Africa in the 1970's. Look up the photos from 1907 of the HMS Sphinx? It captured slavers and there's pictures of the sailors breaking the irons off the slaves.
Blah blah blah, nothing will ever make up for what you British heathens did in Australia. Look at you all patting yourselves on the back. You have NOTHING to be proud of. You tried to genocide us, but failed. To us you are like Hitler and the Nazis. No backpedaling is going to redeem you.
@@earwigbox1 Don't you mean blackwashed. All the history is there if you are interested, a lot of people in the UK don't even know we had two civil wars and the Anarchy. Let alone any details about them. With two thousand years of written history there's just too much. I'm reading up on the early American colonies, I had no idea who horrendous it was.
@@earwigbox1 The British set up and perpetuated a slavery and servitude system throughout the world, at home and in their colonies, one the Americans embraced fully, and profited from greatly. Should all those of African descent forgive and forget that because the British navy "tried" to help (failing miserably, by the sound of it). Families and villages destroyed, cultures gone- do they deserve thanks for shipping some of them back to their own continent, to a town in a region they'd never been to before?
@@splitpitch considering they would have had all this happen to them even without western involvement, I'd say yes, very much so, especially considering the alternatives were Dahomey where they could look forward to having their necks cut to float a boat in a muddy puddle or Arabia where they would be worked to death within 8 years on average, they should be thanking god they went west, still wrong, but far far better then what would have otherwise happened.
"Nothing short of a miracle." - And speaking of the Royal Navy and the abolition of slavery... "Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves! Britons never, never, never shall be slaves."
“The Slavs, who inhabited a large part of Eastern Europe, were taken as slaves by the Muslims of Spain during the ninth century AD” and yet their ancestors don’t use it as an excuse for their lack of progress in the world , that is a black obsession.
Their ancestors? Don't you mean descendants? Anyways, the descendants of Slav slaves in Iberia are probably not aware they are so. If you mean the slavs are their descendents, then no. See, the slaves were taken out of the Slavic region, so the Slavs who live in Eastern Europe are descendents of the ones not being taken as slaves, and thus not descendents of slaves. The descendents of the Iberian slaves would now live in Iberia, north Africa or Western Europe. Just like modern Icelanders are partly descendents of Irish slaves, yet modern Irish are not descendants of Irish slaves. So your argument is kinda flawed.
I'm proud to say my great-great grandfather, Joseph Richmond, served in the Royal Navy on HMS Falcon in the early 1860s as part of the Africa Squadron to prevent the slavery trade to the US leading up to the US civil war. I can only imagine what he would have seen and experienced.
After taking control from German of Tanganyika Britain closed it's last, 500 year, old slave market which serviced the markets on the Arabian peninsular and beyond. In it's time Sub-Saharan slaves were walked as far as China for sale together with captives from Europe. Scots woman, Helen Gloag. was captured by Barry pirates and ended up in the Harem of the Sulton of Morocco. Later, as his favorite wife, she was given the title Empress of Morocco.
The ships log of H.M.S Belerathon still exists, it paints a picture of the royal navies stance on slavery pre trafalgar. The list of the crew includes a large number who were listed as freed slaves. The log also reports that in one port slaves escaped and swam to the ship, the owners demanded they be given back Belerathons captain as per navy orders refused and many confrontations occurred before the ship left with the now free men aboard. This as I said was before the battle of trafalgar.
Indentured servitude still happens. My military time trained me as a tradesman, but for that benefit I had to serve additional time. Most older forms of service would end with the payment of a parcel of land
"The British Crusade Against Slavery" UA-cam, Sargon - It fills in important historical gaps to this amazing Crusade. We British don't have to be burdened by this terrible 'Sin' educated and shoved down our throat's anymore.
I've just been to see "Woman King", I was worried, but it was actually a decent film; interesting time period, and a setting (west Africa) that doesn't get enough attention on screen in the West. All that said, there's an aspect of its historical context which is ignored, and it's pissed me off, so here's a friendly reminder: Planet Earth, you only know that slavery is morally wrong, because countries like Britain taught you that it was wrong. Africa and Asia started slavery, and we (the West) didn't just end slavery as a global norm, we discredited it in moral terms as an idea. Slavery has never recovered. "Veni Vidi Vici". Now that is something that in the 1000s of years they practiced slavery, your ancestors never had the courage or moral capacity to do; and you know it, and that is why you attack the West.
it is pretty sad how the world has forgotten what our ancestors did, they remember our conquest and how far reaching our empire was, but noone seems to remember that it was us who pretty much ended slavery.
Also if other countries brought slaves to the UK!! as soon as they stepped on British soil, they were freed from there master, and had the choice to stay in the UK as paid working men or go back home thankfully a lot chose to stay.
There is an irony that Horatio Nelson who, as a serving captain in the Caribbean, apparently was contemptuous of the Abolitionists Having - as a captain - married a planter bride (not to be confataed with Lady Emma Hamilton who appears in 1798), Nelson did more perhaps than anyone, as an Admiral, to establish the supremacy of the Royal Navy, eventually at Trafalgar (1805) achieving command of the seas. This thereby made possible the British Act of Parliament abolishing the slave trade in 1807. The established power of the navy made the patrols searching ships of all nations thinkable and feasible. History has these strange ironies.
@@historyonthego Britains relationship with slavery is... interesting. It was illegal in England itself, but they turned a blind eye to it in their colonies.
@@addisonwelsh Yeah it’s was illegal, they also brought their slaves from their colonies to England. There was a famous court case that highlighted that fact.
@@addisonwelsh technically, slavery has to be made a legal institution or else slave owners will fall foul of other laws like kidnap, wrongful imprisonment etc. Slavery has to be made legal to circumvent those laws but made illegal. So yes, slavery was never made legal in Britain but the colonial courts in the colonies made it legal.
For some people slavery itself doesn’t seem to be the biggest issue when it really should be.But for these people the bigger issue is that of the colour of the skin of the people that enslaved across the Atlantic in both North and South America. And you know who you are.Slavery has never been about the colour of ones skin but the toil of the enslaved people who made their owners very profitable and thus very wealthy for initially little monetary expense.
Don't be fooled! The British did not end slavery because moral, religious, and humanitarian grounds. It was still about their greed, wealth and money. They realized it was cheaper to keep and man poor than to enslave him. Slavery was only a small portion of the British economy and the slave trade became less profitable due to the Industrial Revolution, agricultural improvements, and the emergence of new international trade systems. The British, French and other Europeans became far wealthier in the colonization and exploitation of Africa's resources than they were during the slave trade. They left the entire continent in abject poverty at very little or no cost to them. They ended slavery because they needed Africans to work in the mines farms plantation and fields. When Britain colonized large parts of Africa, they gained access to a vast array of raw materials like minerals, gold, diamonds, rubber, and agricultural products, which they exploited for extreme profit on a much larger scale compared to the slave trade. The wealth extracted from Africa during colonization helped fuel Britain's industrial revolution by providing cheap raw materials and expanding markets for manufactured goods.
William Wilberforce is one of my all time heroes , Since time began humans have used slaves their fellow humans , this practice is both unethical and Immoral , as a Christian Vegan I wish to draw your attention to the Plight of the animal world , slavery really is the strongs oppression over the weak , this is the same with animals worldwide 10s of billions of animals each each year face an horrendous dead ,the number is said to be around 80 billion , the UK alone slaughters 1.3 billion land animals , why it’s not for me I’m vegan , I can hear some say well animals are not human and there below us , well that’s exactly the same attitude slave transporters and slave owners had about their slaves there below us , if you actually think for one moment animals have many of our ways and feeling , they can feel pain Anxiety loneliness happiness and yes even love , they also have eyes to see a digestive system feet to walk with run reproductive system To produce of springs and yes brain to think and reason , there Sentient , The great Russian writer and philosopher Leo Tolstoy. Said “So long as there are slaughter houses they will be battlefields “ this saying can be Interpreted in many ways , but I see it as quite simply , while we can be so cruel to Gods most innocent of creatures the humans have no chance , also Buddha quoted , If a man cannot kill a mouse he surely would not kill a human being , I have a saying myself , violence beings on your dinner plate, is the food on your plate the non violent type or did it scream in terror , rob the Christian Vegan , 🙏💚🕊🌱x
Dear White people, do not think for one second we do not know our own history, do not think we do not know that the British "ended slavery" More like they ended black slavery and even after that it was bloody hard for the slaves and most went back to being slaves because they were homeless or couldn't get work because......(All disprised Indians please feel free to add your experience after the so called end of Slavery) as my grandma was a product of indentured labour, in the West Indies for the British which still isn't a good thing, but hey you want praise right? And that's the problem, you want praise but fail to see what Europe and Britain really done, ( the Europeans are a tad more honest about it ) you fail to want to acknowledge their involvement. There are levels to slavery everyone traded slaves, but it's the trade what was taken from these countries, the deaths of people who now hardly exist. some were killed off. It's not just a black thing. People will say why don't they teach this in schools? well they will have to tell the whole story before the glory and Britain just love to tell you about the glory. I will give Britain its flowers when they take accountability for slavery/Trade (because trade is also very important to the story of slavery) and the role they play and still play today, until then you can go away will all your ignorant waffle. The funny thing is, (well let's just call it irony) its what made Britain what it is today lol.
Shhhhhh. African King's and tribal leaders made such an amount of wealth and power from the TRADE that some went on record saying they would rather die than stop the slave trade. Maybe you should look up the history of African royalty who sold their own for horses. Yes that's correct. African captured slaves were traded for horses. The very definition of racism. Treating humans as sub humans. So don't sit there all smart like. Once that is mentioned everyone shuts up. Convenient amnesia.
"I would do anything for the British Empire, except abandon the slave trade. The slave trade has been the ruling principle of my people. It is the source of their glory and wealth. Their songs celebrate their victories and the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery." --King Ghezo of Dahomy
Sorry, that's just pathetic revisionism. The European enlightenment changed the view of people from subjects, pretty much owned by their kings, lords etc to citizens. That movement was exemplified by the British anti slaving movement. Without it people would still think slavery the natural order. Islamic law justifies slavery and always will! Just because you're ignorant doesn't mean you're right.
What a bigotry.......They used the term ‘crusade’ which is in itself a term derived in Germany to name some rogue warriors of religious bigotry who killed their own people in Constantinople & Venice after they were defeated in the Levant...they themselves known to kept millions of if not thousands of central Asian & black slaves to push into war & traded them to fund the crusade.......I donno why people are using this term for implying to mean something for good....???
Slavery will always be part of Islamic law. Maybe you should focus on why the 2nd largest religion justifies slavery today than worrying about semantics.
Don't forget the 20,000 British sailors who gave their lives fighting the slave trade
We have too. It doesn't fit the narrative
I seriously doubt anyone including the presenter gavea shite.
All about the money.
@@garethwigglesworth8187 if that’s the case, it’s really sad.
I’ve learnt that history is not straight forward, the assumptions we make are often wrong. There’s always 2 sides to an arguments. What ever the reason for freeing slaves, it did happen. That should be highlighted and put in its proper context. Peace and love from a Sikh !
@@runcornbalsall130 history is written by the Victor and in WW2 communism won the war. General Patern beloved we should have pushed on and fraught the Soviets after the defeat of the Nazis we didn't and shortly after he was killed in a minor traffic accident. His postmortem is still sealed by National Security convention.
@@pipmill7076 It wasn't about the money though. The British Empire accrued such a large debt in fighting the slave trade, that it was only finally paid off in the 2010's. And prior to this, when they were taking part in the trade, vast sums of money were being made and taxed.
The greatest moral 180 turn in history!
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Slavery was made illegal in Britain in 1068 by William the Conqueror. Any slave arriving on English soil was automatically a free man, so less of a 180 than many countries.
@@patrickowen2460 if we are going to be technically or historically correct, the active enslavement of people in England was abolished at that time. When they were enslaved somewhere else caused a legal grey area until a certain case (can't remember the name) caused that universal decree.
@@mikzpwnz_3199 the Somerset case.
Grudging approval by a man who is constantly critical of the UKs race relations, we aren’t perfect in this country but people flock here to benefit from one of the fairest and most tolerant states in the world.
@@Lleeeot So thats not the greed of the african leaders then? its all our fault...
@@Lleeeot someone here doesn't understand the meaning of "trade"
@@Lleeeot Yeah. Those African leaders were definitely forced to sell their slaves to the Europeans!
@@Lleeeot you are misguided. have a good day
@@Lleeeot hUrr dUrr dUrr pEoPlE i DiSaGrEe WiTh Is StUpId
Is there a greater reason for a place to have a name. Freetown. I have heard the name hundreds of times before with ever knowing why. God bless the British Navy.
Freetown was originally Sierra Leone (the British Colony), but when it became apparent that returning freed slaves back to the nations that had enslaved them, was a stupid idea. We sliced out a bit of Africa, created a new nation for freed slaves, and transferred the name to that new nation. Then they had to come up with a name for what was once the colony... and Freetown is certainly a very fitting name.
@@davetdowell yes, the practicalities meant Britain had to set up Sierra Leone. This was the age of sail and even if they could identify where the slaves came from they couldn't guarantee they wouldn't be enslaved again if returned.
It was not a perfect solution but about the only practical one.
One important thing is forgotten in the slave trade story of Africa. It actually started in North Africa with the Barbary Pirates taking slaves from Europe for the Otterman Empire. Possibly as many as 1.25 million were taken into slavery as far north as Ireland whole villages were wiped out. Before Europeans arrived in Africa, African villages would take on salves from other villages they attacked and originally Africans sold slaves to Europeans. This doesn't mean that Europe was right. But the picture is not as simple as it looks.
lol, pardon me, but it started long before that, the taking of european slaves by the berbers was the beginning of the end not the beginning, it led the europeans acting with military force to get restitution from the cities where slaves were traded, to get people back, & to get promises from those citiesto cease trading the citizens of the aggressor nations forcing the terms
the mediterranean slave trade was older than rome before that, before the europeans put an end to much of it
also africans never stopped selling africans into slavery through the entire atlantic slave trade, they still were when it ended, the death of the slave trade likely crippled the economies of some west african nations that had built themselves up through it
@Jo Sm probably will again because it will always be halal in the correct circumstances.
@Jo Sm the UN estimate their are 80million slaves in the world today (1 generation). 3million in Pakistan, 8million in India, should this be on the cirriculum alongside the 200 year old Atlantic trade? If you want inclusion and equality, I'd say so.....
@@jesusjohnny8286 Sounds good to me. Slavery should be abolished everywhere. People have grown too comfortable with the idea that it is a thing of the past. And they are wrong. It is a ghastly thing that is still alive and kicking.
We in Britain must be honest about the history of the slave trade and our involvement in it. But that has to include the crusade this country fought against the practice and thr great expense borne by ordinary British taxpayers to do so. Among European nations, the UK benefitted most from transatlantic slavery. But far and away it contributed most to ending the practice once and for all.
The now often heard lie is that the British Empire was built on slavery. But ending slavery bankrupted England, because England financed the freeing of slaves by borrowing millions of pounds, a debt that was only paid off 30 years ago.
And suffered slavery from berber pirates
@@nigelsheppard625 actually it was only paid off in 2015
The issue is we as Brits have never been ashamed of our history but leftest want to just paint the Empire as this great evil and anything that would put the Empire in a good standing like abolishion of slavery is thrown back in our faces with you still took part in so it doesn't count and then they are saying songs like Rule Britannia are inherently racist because of the slave trade even though Rule Britannia was written after the slave trade was abolished.
I'm pretty sure Portugal profited the most from the transatlantic slave trade
In 1833 Britain used 40% of its national budget to purchase the freedom of every slave in the Empire. This entailed borrowing so much money to carry this out under the Abolition Of Slavery Act that it wasn't paid off until 2014. So, living British people paid for the ending of the Slave Trade.
great to see a fellow Brit standing up for GB
@Jo Sm Trader? so who did he trade with? Maybe that's why LOL
@Jo Sm buy them from whom?The locals who the British "bombed" by any chance?
@Jo Sm wow you tube censorship is on another level
English men Banning slavery.
William Lecky
“The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.”
David doesn't mention his birth city of Lagos was forced by the Royal Navy to stop slaving in 1851. Indeed, Britain struggled to stop slavery in Nigeria right to independence.
Lagos even renamed it's independence square after a local slave trader. You can visit her statue there today.
I 50 year old now. And in my schooling in England I was always told about the injustice of the evil slave trade and Britain part in it.. the piont in my education about it was was to except the wrongs this country did in the past. Learn from them and be I force in the world against things like this... but to hear the way the media and people talk today you think we were been educationed different.. we were moving in the right direction. Now we have gone backwards. We should now be educationed to hate our history. Except the bad things. But don't forget the good too. That not racist. Its Learning the hole thruth. Nothing is ever black or white. Life is more complicated than that.
Then we are going forward, its been quite a few years since I was in school but even though we were taught about our terrible part in the slave trade but we were also taught about the better part, us abolishing the slave trade as well.
We were taught about slavery in school many years ago the inhumanity of it the conditions the many deaths thathappened I hope all schools have this aswell
Accept* the wrongs
Not except
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@@peterwilson6509 yes, but these days, that's ALL we're taught. We are NOT taught about Britain's hand in ending the slave trade, we are not taught about the 20,000 British sailors who gave their lives to fight slavery, and we are not taught about the case of James Somerset, and the beginning of Britain's fight against slavery.
@@idcgaming518 I assume the reason for that is similar to Germany teaching WW1 and 2. We are too ashamed about being a main part of it to look at any positive outcomes. They teach people it's strictly bad so no one gets any funny ideas. I do think they should teach people that Britain isn't a country to be ashamed of but I'd have to guess that's the reason.
when slavery is a global norm, at some point someone has to say "enough is enough" and that was the much maligned British Empire.
Say his name: William Wilberforce
Honestly, 6% is a hugely impressive number when you consider the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the sheer size of the area the west Africa squadron was trying to blockade.
Yet still we are blamed for it all
Puritans love the concept of original sin, for it gives them the feeling of moral superiority which they use as a cudgel to beat their opponents with.
As well as the West Africa Squadron, the Royal Navy sent a fleet to bombard Algiers and forced the end of the Barbary slave trade, later the Africa Squadron transferred its main effort to the East African coast and fought a long, dangerous fight supressing the slave trade on that coast.
They only stopped patrolling East Africa in the 1970's.
Look up the photos from 1907 of the HMS Sphinx? It captured slavers and there's pictures of the sailors breaking the irons off the slaves.
Blah blah blah, nothing will ever make up for what you British heathens did in Australia. Look at you all patting yourselves on the back. You have NOTHING to be proud of. You tried to genocide us, but failed. To us you are like Hitler and the Nazis. No backpedaling is going to redeem you.
How many of those in London last summer know about this ?
BLM HAS NO PLACE IN THE UK
Shame all this is forgotten about
People are not interested in history - they want endless Kardashian BS.
It is not forgotten, it's white washed because it doesn't suit the identarian black armband view of history beloved by our liberal elites.
@@earwigbox1 Don't you mean blackwashed. All the history is there if you are interested, a lot of people in the UK don't even know we had two civil wars and the Anarchy. Let alone any details about them. With two thousand years of written history there's just too much. I'm reading up on the early American colonies, I had no idea who horrendous it was.
@@earwigbox1 The British set up and perpetuated a slavery and servitude system throughout the world, at home and in their colonies, one the Americans embraced fully, and profited from greatly. Should all those of African descent forgive and forget that because the British navy "tried" to help (failing miserably, by the sound of it). Families and villages destroyed, cultures gone- do they deserve thanks for shipping some of them back to their own continent, to a town in a region they'd never been to before?
@@splitpitch considering they would have had all this happen to them even without western involvement, I'd say yes, very much so, especially considering the alternatives were Dahomey where they could look forward to having their necks cut to float a boat in a muddy puddle or Arabia where they would be worked to death within 8 years on average, they should be thanking god they went west, still wrong, but far far better then what would have otherwise happened.
It took the power of an Empire to end slavery.
Proud to be British !!
Huh, common uncivilized heathens
"Nothing short of a miracle." - And speaking of the Royal Navy and the abolition of slavery... "Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves! Britons never, never, never shall be slaves."
Roma Invicta 😁
“The Slavs, who inhabited a large part of Eastern Europe, were taken as slaves by the Muslims of Spain during the ninth century AD” and yet their ancestors don’t use it as an excuse for their lack of progress in the world , that is a black obsession.
This is 100% right.
Their ancestors? Don't you mean descendants?
Anyways, the descendants of Slav slaves in Iberia are probably not aware they are so. If you mean the slavs are their descendents, then no. See, the slaves were taken out of the Slavic region, so the Slavs who live in Eastern Europe are descendents of the ones not being taken as slaves, and thus not descendents of slaves. The descendents of the Iberian slaves would now live in Iberia, north Africa or Western Europe.
Just like modern Icelanders are partly descendents of Irish slaves, yet modern Irish are not descendants of Irish slaves.
So your argument is kinda flawed.
The word Slave partially derives from the word Slav because so many were taken
I thought it was Ottoman empire that enslaved the eastern Europeans. , not the Ummayad dynasty that ruled Spain
Just remember we all make mistakes but it really takes a bigger person to correct their own mistakes ❤️
@Penderyn yes everyone just happens to give money out when they're not making a profit.
Thank you Dr Olusoga.
I'm proud to say my great-great grandfather, Joseph Richmond, served in the Royal Navy on HMS Falcon in the early 1860s as part of the Africa Squadron to prevent the slavery trade to the US leading up to the US civil war. I can only imagine what he would have seen and experienced.
What fantastic family heritage. God bless his memory.
After taking control from German of Tanganyika Britain closed it's last, 500 year, old slave market which serviced the markets on the Arabian peninsular and beyond. In it's time Sub-Saharan slaves were walked as far as China for sale together with captives from Europe.
Scots woman, Helen Gloag. was captured by Barry pirates and ended up in the Harem of the Sulton of Morocco. Later, as his favorite wife, she was given the title Empress of Morocco.
The ships log of H.M.S Belerathon still exists, it paints a picture of the royal navies stance on slavery pre trafalgar. The list of the crew includes a large number who were listed as freed slaves. The log also reports that in one port slaves escaped and swam to the ship, the owners demanded they be given back Belerathons captain as per navy orders refused and many confrontations occurred before the ship left with the now free men aboard. This as I said was before the battle of trafalgar.
HMS Bellerophon.
Look up the photos of HMS Sphinx and that slave traders they arrested and the removal of chains from the slaves in 1907?
Nicknamed by the Jack Tars "Billy Ruffian". You cannot beat below deck humour!
Serfs, indentured servants and slaves, we've got a history of slavery in UK, but I'm proud of the steps we've taken to stop it xxx
Indentured servitude still happens. My military time trained me as a tradesman, but for that benefit I had to serve additional time. Most older forms of service would end with the payment of a parcel of land
Not taught in schools
From carrying slaves to buyers to saving them from buyers
@Rob Pike So a country can't rectify it's errors by endeavouring to eradicate something it had done in the past.
@Rob Pike You belong on /pol with the rest of the nutters, m8
Thank you for shedding some light on some of the TRUTHS for a change. Much respect! 🤝
"The British Crusade Against Slavery" UA-cam, Sargon - It fills in important historical gaps to this amazing Crusade. We British don't have to be burdened by this terrible 'Sin' educated and shoved down our throat's anymore.
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I've just been to see "Woman King", I was worried, but it was actually a decent film; interesting time period, and a setting (west Africa) that doesn't get enough attention on screen in the West. All that said, there's an aspect of its historical context which is ignored, and it's pissed me off, so here's a friendly reminder:
Planet Earth, you only know that slavery is morally wrong, because countries like Britain taught you that it was wrong. Africa and Asia started slavery, and we (the West) didn't just end slavery as a global norm, we discredited it in moral terms as an idea. Slavery has never recovered. "Veni Vidi Vici".
Now that is something that in the 1000s of years they practiced slavery, your ancestors never had the courage or moral capacity to do; and you know it, and that is why you attack the West.
The English and British only finished paying financially for the end of slavery in 2012.
@Rob Pike ah so it it was. Thanks for the correction. 👍
@AngelSubliminal Majik 👍
@AngelSubliminal Majik Many hated us for even ending the slave trade in the first place. Those that matter don't mind, those that mind don't matter
it is pretty sad how the world has forgotten what our ancestors did,
they remember our conquest and how far reaching our empire was,
but noone seems to remember that it was us who pretty much ended slavery.
Nice vid. I had often wondered what happened to the slaves the navy freed.
Also if other countries brought slaves to the UK!! as soon as they stepped on British soil, they were freed from there master, and had the choice to stay in the UK as paid working men or go back home thankfully a lot chose to stay.
Could someone teach this piece of history to all the woke anti British middle class scum. They need to know this.
There is an irony that Horatio Nelson who, as a serving captain in the Caribbean, apparently was contemptuous of the Abolitionists Having - as a captain - married a planter bride (not to be confataed with Lady Emma Hamilton who appears in 1798), Nelson did more perhaps than anyone, as an Admiral, to establish the supremacy of the Royal Navy, eventually at Trafalgar (1805) achieving command of the seas. This thereby made possible the British Act of Parliament abolishing the slave trade in 1807. The established power of the navy made the patrols searching ships of all nations thinkable and feasible. History has these strange ironies.
Sorry, Britain never had a legal slave trade.
No, but her colonies did.
What do you mean?
@@historyonthego Britains relationship with slavery is... interesting. It was illegal in England itself, but they turned a blind eye to it in their colonies.
@@addisonwelsh Yeah it’s was illegal, they also brought their slaves from their colonies to England. There was a famous court case that highlighted that fact.
@@addisonwelsh technically, slavery has to be made a legal institution or else slave owners will fall foul of other laws like kidnap, wrongful imprisonment etc. Slavery has to be made legal to circumvent those laws but made illegal.
So yes, slavery was never made legal in Britain but the colonial courts in the colonies made it legal.
'Freeman' - Common Law!
For some people slavery itself doesn’t seem to be the biggest issue when it really should be.But for these people the bigger issue is that of the colour of the skin of the people that enslaved across the Atlantic in both North and South America. And you know who you are.Slavery has never been about the colour of ones skin but the toil of the enslaved people who made their owners very profitable and thus very wealthy for initially little monetary expense.
David Olusoga trying to down play the fact it was the British who ended the slave trade and West African rulers did not want it to end, so much bias.
Don't be fooled! The British did not end slavery because moral, religious, and humanitarian grounds. It was still about their greed, wealth and money. They realized it was cheaper to keep and man poor than to enslave him. Slavery was only a small portion of the British economy and the slave trade became less profitable due to the Industrial Revolution, agricultural improvements, and the emergence of new international trade systems. The British, French and other Europeans became far wealthier in the colonization and exploitation of Africa's resources than they were during the slave trade. They left the entire continent in abject poverty at very little or no cost to them. They ended slavery because they needed Africans to work in the mines farms plantation and fields. When Britain colonized large parts of Africa, they gained access to a vast array of raw materials like minerals, gold, diamonds, rubber, and agricultural products, which they exploited for extreme profit on a much larger scale compared to the slave trade. The wealth extracted from Africa during colonization helped fuel Britain's industrial revolution by providing cheap raw materials and expanding markets for manufactured goods.
I don't believe this...waiting for the kick in the balls ...obviously comes later!
What do you mean by this, are you saying that the British are incapable of being moral?
@@bobhazel2335 I don't think @Mad Carew is saying that - but David Olusoga does have a bit of a reputation for being a bit one-sided.
Slavery is over 5,000 years old not centuries
brits to be the first to act
It is not black and British. it's black or British. British is colourblind. If you have to prefix or suffix "British", then you are not.
We freed'em here in the States and it's done us soooo much good, as you can see.
well isnt this ironic
Put this in your woke pipe and smoke it
William Wilberforce is one of my all time heroes , Since time began humans have used slaves their fellow humans , this practice is both unethical and Immoral , as a Christian Vegan I wish to draw your attention to the Plight of the animal world , slavery really is the strongs oppression over the weak , this is the same with animals worldwide 10s of billions of animals each each year face an horrendous dead ,the number is said to be around 80 billion , the UK alone slaughters 1.3 billion land animals , why it’s not for me I’m vegan , I can hear some say well animals are not human and there below us , well that’s exactly the same attitude slave transporters and slave owners had about their slaves there below us , if you actually think for one moment animals have many of our ways and feeling , they can feel pain Anxiety loneliness happiness and yes even love , they also have eyes to see a digestive system feet to walk with run reproductive system To produce of springs and yes brain to think and reason , there Sentient , The great Russian writer and philosopher Leo Tolstoy. Said “So long as there are slaughter houses they will be battlefields “ this saying can be Interpreted in many ways , but I see it as quite simply , while we can be so cruel to Gods most innocent of creatures the humans have no chance , also Buddha quoted , If a man cannot kill a mouse he surely would not kill a human being , I have a saying myself , violence beings on your dinner plate, is the food on your plate the non violent type or did it scream in terror , rob the Christian Vegan , 🙏💚🕊🌱x
I would love for them to help African American's find their African Ancestors to help heal their souls.
How? It would do the opposite. There neighbours sold them as cattle and slaughtered their relatives.
Dear White people, do not think for one second we do not know our own history, do not think we do not know that the British "ended slavery" More like they ended black slavery and even after that it was bloody hard for the slaves and most went back to being slaves because they were homeless or couldn't get work because......(All disprised Indians please feel free to add your experience after the so called end of Slavery) as my grandma was a product of indentured labour, in the West Indies for the British which still isn't a good thing, but hey you want praise right? And that's the problem, you want praise but fail to see what Europe and Britain really done, ( the Europeans are a tad more honest about it ) you fail to want to acknowledge their involvement. There are levels to slavery everyone traded slaves, but it's the trade what was taken from these countries, the deaths of people who now hardly exist. some were killed off. It's not just a black thing. People will say why don't they teach this in schools? well they will have to tell the whole story before the glory and Britain just love to tell you about the glory. I will give Britain its flowers when they take accountability for slavery/Trade (because trade is also very important to the story of slavery) and the role they play and still play today, until then you can go away will all your ignorant waffle. The funny thing is, (well let's just call it irony) its what made Britain what it is today lol.
Shhhhhh. African King's and tribal leaders made such an amount of wealth and power from the TRADE that some went on record saying they would rather die than stop the slave trade. Maybe you should look up the history of African royalty who sold their own for horses. Yes that's correct. African captured slaves were traded for horses. The very definition of racism. Treating humans as sub humans. So don't sit there all smart like. Once that is mentioned everyone shuts up. Convenient amnesia.
"I would do anything for the British Empire, except abandon the slave trade. The slave trade has been the ruling principle of my people. It is the source of their glory and wealth. Their songs celebrate their victories and the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery."
--King Ghezo of Dahomy
Sorry, that's just pathetic revisionism. The European enlightenment changed the view of people from subjects, pretty much owned by their kings, lords etc to citizens. That movement was exemplified by the British anti slaving movement. Without it people would still think slavery the natural order.
Islamic law justifies slavery and always will!
Just because you're ignorant doesn't mean you're right.
@@nihilityjoey the king of the Bonny, one of the main but not largest slaving kingdoms, made the equivalent of a billion dollars a year slaving.
@@addisonwelsh Gezo wasn't the only African king to protest. About half a dozen wrote to Britain not to stop the trade.
What a bigotry.......They used the term ‘crusade’ which is in itself a term derived in Germany to name some rogue warriors of religious bigotry who killed their own people in Constantinople & Venice after they were defeated in the Levant...they themselves known to kept millions of if not thousands of central Asian & black slaves to push into war & traded them to fund the crusade.......I donno why people are using this term for implying to mean something for good....???
you are forgetting the millions of people killed when the Muslims can out of saudi and took over the land that didn't belong to them
Maybe because the definition is a vigorous campaign for political, social, or religious change. Can be good or bad
Crusade is just the Christian term for a holy war I.e. A war fought on moral basis rather than for any specific political cause.
@@doger944 Muslim history just used the word Jihad which had a similar "holy/righteous war" meaning
Slavery will always be part of Islamic law. Maybe you should focus on why the 2nd largest religion justifies slavery today than worrying about semantics.