Should the UK pay Commonwealth slavery reparations

[exiledclaseboy]

Someone’s been at revisionist wiki.

 

[ABSwan]

Someone’s been at revisionist wiki.

It's called History, anyone can look it up.

 

[ABSwan]

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade · African Passages, Lowcountry Adaptations · Lowcountry Digital History Initiative

 

[Neath_Jack]

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade · African Passages, Lowcountry Adaptations · Lowcountry Digital History Initiative

This’ll be my last reply to you as you’re intimidating me with your education.

You seem to be hanging on the words ‘we’ and ‘enslaved’. If you think owning, transporting and dealing in humans doesn’t come under the enslaved banner, you need to brush up on that brilliant education you’ve supposedly got.

British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade began in 1562, and by the 1730s Britain was the world’s biggest slave-trading nation. London was the financial heart of the system, and ships from Liverpool, London and Bristol dominated the slave routes, supported by Glasgow and Lancaster.

There’s plenty being done for modern slavery, can more be done? Of course it can.

 

[ABSwan]

This’ll be my last reply to you as you’re intimidating me with your education.

You seem to be hanging on the words ‘we’ and ‘enslaved’. If you think owning, transporting and dealing in humans doesn’t come under the enslaved banner, you need to brush up on that brilliant education you’ve supposedly got.

British involvement in the transatlantic slave trade began in 1562, and by the 1730s Britain was the world’s biggest slave-trading nation. London was the financial heart of the system, and ships from Liverpool, London and Bristol dominated the slave routes, supported by Glasgow and Lancaster.

There’s plenty being done for modern slavery, can more be done? Of course it can.

Makes me smile, your little history does not conflict with what I said.

The Portuguese started transporting slaves in early 16th Century, the British became involved later when the colonies needed labour, so yes the 16th Century, in fact the first slaves brought to Jamestown were siezed by a British ship from a Portuguese ship. I stated that Britain took the sole rights to transport slaves as part of a treaty at the start of the 18th Century, so yes by 1730 we were the biggest slave traders.

Doesn't take from the fact that Africans enslaved Africans and transported them to the coast to the Portuguese trading centre's where they were bought and transported to the New World.

I'm glad you included the dates, almost 300 years ago.

When people talk about reparations, who are they going to pay? No-one today is guilty and no one today suffered from the trans Atlantic slave trade. I doubt many descendants would want to 'return' to Africa.

What about the victims of the Indian Ocean slave trade that lasted longer and the people taken were more than the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. How far do we go back, slave trading goes back to Egyptian times, probably earlier.

Britain paid an enormous price to free the slaves in British held territories, if they had not paid the price then the slaves would have remained slaves. No other Country involved paid such a price. Then Britain single handedly tried to block the slave routes, I read up to 1500 British sailors lost their lives patrolling the slave routes. The African leaders were making so much money they refused to stop.

Did you see the movie The Woman KIng, actually a decent movie with a decent story. But that's all it was, a story, nothing like the truth, this kingdom with women warriors that freed slaves, mostly true except this was one of he kingdoms making a lot of money from slaves.

We can at least agree that slavery is an abomination.

 

[Swanseafan]

No just like the Germans, Normans , Vikings, Anglo Saxons and Romans won't pay us any reparations .

History is in the past why should people, who have nothing to do with what happened 100s of ago have any responsibility for it.