Britain’s commitment to slavery was more deeply entrenched than we like to admit. We pride ourselves that from 1807 the Royal Navy took the lead in scouring the seas of slavers. But that’s barely half the story, and half the deed. When Britain moved against the slave trade in 1807, banning shipments of humans for sale, it was not before time. Whilst 1807 banned more shipments of African chattels, what of those already enslaved in the West Indies? It took another 27 years, and a series of uprisings, of which the 1816 Bussa Rebellion in Barbados was the biggest, before the British Parliament finally made slavery illegal.
There’s a real value in understanding your history. The fact that this is subject to bad-faith interpretations on both sides doesn’t change that, but makes it much more challenging to approach. I hope you will keep reading, because this point will become more obvious, and more important than you might think. I think you’ll be surprised. It’s not about grifting or cringing, as you’ll discover.
So what, that was then this is now. Nobody in the real word cares tuppence whether Buck House was built on profits from slave produced sugar profits or not. The only people who care are terminally stupid race grifters looking for a bit of compo, and hysterically cringe white middle class Nancy boys.
There’s a real value in understanding your history. The fact that this is subject to bad-faith interpretations on both sides doesn’t change that, but makes it much more challenging to approach. I hope you will keep reading, because this point will become more obvious, and more important than you might think. I think you’ll be surprised. It’s not about grifting or cringing, as you’ll discover.
Outstanding research as always
So what, that was then this is now. Nobody in the real word cares tuppence whether Buck House was built on profits from slave produced sugar profits or not. The only people who care are terminally stupid race grifters looking for a bit of compo, and hysterically cringe white middle class Nancy boys.