American Reacts to The British Crusade Against Slavery

Im reacting to The British Crusade Against Slavery. As an American, (American Reaction) I never knew about any of this extremely important piece of history. I was never ever taught this in school and it is a freaking travesty. This should be in the curriculum of all American schools. Im so glad that I watched this video guys. If there is anything I misinterpreted or got wrong while watching the video please correct me. Leave as many comments as you want. I try to spend a couple of hours at least a couple of times a week to read all of the new comments. As always, thank you guys so much!
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[@markhutton6055]

It is worth noting that we, the British tax payer, finally finished paying for this in 2013.

[@marialanchester8180]

2015 babes, kind regards

[@munners0852]

animal husbandry noun The branch of agriculture concerned with the care and breeding of domestic animals such as cattle, hogs, sheep, and horses. breeding and caring for farm animals

[@tansygilbert4095]

Animal husbandry is Farming

[@mickparkinson207]

The Barbary Africans (Muslims) were raiding for white slaves 500 years before the transatlantic slave trade,for galley slaves white men are an inch taller on average and have significantly greater upper body strength than black Africans, obviously slavers favoured the white men they chained them naked to a plank until they died shit pee ate sitting on that bench.. another fav of sub Saharan and Muslim rich people were pre pubescent white boys and white girls as rape toys.. often traded for black slaves.. the raid on Vienna Austria netted 80,000 white slaves.. aprox 40% were the much treasured African love of white pre pubescent children to tear their little bodies apart.. or ask the Pygmy’s there were 7 million until the Bantu migration .. now only 250,000 left alive in the Congo kept as pets by black Africans, in times of food scarcity they are used as a meat source… (you didn’t think Belgians were that evil they simply enjoyed tying black Congolese to trees and competed to see whom could chop them from neck to crotch for no other reason than they were black? Turns out the Belgians took the slaughter and CANNIBALISM of Pygmy men women and children for food an evil that required the death penalty.

[@craignhs5932]

I refuse to be ashamed of our history. Our ancestors have far more to be proud of than ashamed.

[@1951woodygeo]

It was not our Government who sold slaves in fact we never but it was Pirates who transported them for a price to the Americas it was African tribes who sold them it was The Royal Navy who stopped the transporting of slaves from Africa to the Americas by arresting the Purates and freeing those slaves they had on board there ships, as far as Frankie Boyle goes he knows nothing about history he has jumped on the Bandwagon as all woke Comedians seem to have done as they don’t want to be cancelled in Fact the Portuguese and the Dutch were a 100 times worse than anyone, oh Africans and the Barbary coast were coming up to the British waters and raiding villages in Cornwall and Devon raping and pillaging and taking woman and children and men back to Africa and sold as slaves long before Britain had a Navy they did that when the Romans left Briton

[@DesL488]

Obviously you don't know anything about your ancestors history to come up with a comment like that.

[@craignhs5932]

@@DesL488 the word "obviously" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there my friend 😉 All about opinions I suppose 👍

[@DesL488]

@@craignhs5932 it's only heavy lifting for the ignorant. It all depends on whether your history is based on facts, or merely opinion. The fact is that the British Empire wasn't based on the ideal of the playing fields of Eton. It wasn't all tea, crumpets and tiffin in the afternoon. It was based on theft, murder, subjugation, divide and conquer, exploitation, the effects of which are still being played out today. And as far as we descendants of slavery are concerned, our total loss of indentity, language and culture. Yes you can compare slavery throughout history in other countries and you can pat yourself on the back for your ancestors ending their slave trade, but you have to realise that before the 1830's, a lot of shit happened due to slavery and the slave trade.

[@craignhs5932]

@@DesL488 You seem more concerned about the British Empire than you do about the actual slavery which is strange. Africans enslaved Africans long before Europeans came on the scene. I don't hold you personally responsible for that. Muslims traded Europeans and Africans long before the British Empire and I don't hold Muslims of today responsible for that. Heck the Romans and the Vikings traded native Brits but I don't blame Luigi or Olaf. When slavery was the norm (it still is in some places today) British companies traded like anyone else. The facts remain that it was the British govt that ended slavery and my ancestors both paid for and died doing it. The same ancestors who were also responsible for the industrial revolution which has led to you having most of the things you take for granted today. We can all find reasons to criticize if we take a myopic view on things. As with most things in life however, it's the bigger picture which gives the most accurate view 👍

[@JJ-of1ir]

Everyone in the UK paid for this campaign. They agreed to pay higher taxes so that the Crusade could carry on. The hideous debt we incurred was finally paid for in 2015.

[@CrazyInWeston]

Yet countries like Bermuda for example want more expatrations (I cant spell) for Britains involvement in the slave trade. Havent we paid enough already? And why does everyone seem to blame the British for the trading of slaves? We didn't invent slavery, and yes at first there was participation into the trade from Africa to the Americas but we soon knew it was wrong and had to be stopped and we were the only nation in the world that stood up to it!

[@MDM1992]

@@CrazyInWeston we've done more than enough, they can fuck off as I'm concerned. The fact is, it's just a scrounging tactic and they are simply racists using the slave trade as a weapon to try and beat the races they hate into submission with. I'm not falling for it and I have no time, nor money for racists, I don't care where they're from or what colour they are, they're barking up the wrong tree. Lol

[@mykota2417]

Yes paid for from subsequent generations taxes

[@madyottoyotto3055]

We paid it off 12 years ago

[@mykota2417]

@@madyottoyotto3055 7 years ago. 2015. It took nearly 200 yrs of repayments with interest by British citizens to ex slave owners n give profit back to bank of England. A circle of pure greed.

[@cctvmanbob]

As a Royal Navy veteran I am very proud of our part in the anti slave trade ..

[@Gerrygambone]

Britain lost about 2000 Brave Naval Personnel fighting the slave trade.

[@dominicbuckley8309]

The Somersett case was one of the key turning points in the lead-up to the American revolution. His owner, Charles Stewart, had been the chief customs officer of Boston, Massachusetts, so the news of the case was widely reported in the colonies. This galvanised the slave-owners to call for independence, to sever ties with Britain before the Abolitionist movement mounted legal challenges which would have affected the colonial economy: there is a reason that two thirds of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence were slave-owners.

[@gilberthill9816]

Americans have never been taught the real facts behind their war of independence. For instance one fact was that Britain at the time was pitting her army against two major superpowers, France and Spain. The Army of the 13 states was merely a second or 3rd string of a weak national guard. What the states should have done was rally around the flag in the time of Empire building. Slaving however in the Americas was too profitable. Surely the intellect of America must know that it had nothing to do with a tea tax, something so insignificant it could have been settled over a few beers. I’m beginning to think you’re more indoctrinated than Russians!!😂🤣😂😂🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@streaky81]

Yup, it's the great lie of the American Revolution: slave owners saw the tide changing and kicked off the entire movement when it was really a cover for exactly that.

[@banjohead97]

That's very interesting, where did you find that information? I knew about the Somerset case but didn't realise or read about the repercussions of the the case and how it affected American history.

[@mariafletcher6603]

Hooray up the British. From UK 🇬🇧👍👍 b Safe take care where ever you are, PEACE ☮️🕊️🕊️ an old cockney gal. I'M PROUD TO BE BRITISH.

[@loopyloo788]

An old Geordie here. And I’m proud to be British as well. Well said my friend. x

[@mariafletcher6603]

@@loopyloo788 Hi Loopy Loo. no matter where anybody s is born should never be a shamed of where they come from. hope you are well and healthy. b safe take care my friend. from 🇬🇧👍 an old cockney gal

[@paulknox999]

the debts that the UK ran up at that time paying for freed slaves, compensating slave owners, etcetc took until 2015 to finish paying. So every taxpayer in the UK until 2015 was paying towards the campaign to stop slavery

[@DesL488]

Please remove the part about paying for freed slaves, only the owners received compensation.

[@MDM1992]

@@DesL488 that's how law worked, and still works in some degree today. Use your fucking brain for a moment, please. If something/someone is legally owned, it would need to be purchased/have its former owner compensated and a record made in order to free them.. if the slave owners were not compensated in some token way, by law, they would remain the legal owner and possibly have even been able to make a case for theft of their property otherwise.. how the fuck can you be so mindless as to see a nation spending unfathomable amounts of money, taking decades upon decades UPON DECADES to pay back, simply to effectively throw that money in the air by releasing that purchase on nothing more than moral principal as a bad thing?? Please explain your warped logic in a way that makes sense. If you want compensation, go to the source! The people who sold your ancestors, you know, YOUR OWN PEOPLE WHO SOLD YOU! Scrounge from the trader not the customer! THINK ABOUT IT... Your hatred is pointed entirely in the wrong direction my friend.

[@ristart777]

@@DesL488 paying for freed slaves is completely accurate, compensation is most definitely a form of payment. Had the claim instead been paying slaves after they were freed, which would have been the morally correct thing to do in my opinion, then it would have been a false claim. It’s strange how Britain, USA and the like now advise to never negotiate with terrorists because paying a penny would ultimately encourage such.

[@DesL488]

@@ristart777 thanks for clearing that up!

[@DesL488]

@@ristart777 Aside from the strange analogy, you serious think that neither the UK, or US have never negotiated with terrorist. If you do, then I have a bridge that i want to sell you. The former slave owners would not have become destitute and penniless, after the people had their freedom restored, the would still have made their money! The argument is that the former slaves should have been compensated for their labour during their time as chattel. That would have been the moral, ethical and equitable thing to do.

[@no-oneinparticular7264]

And still we get blamed by the ignorant, uninformed and downright abusive people. My message, learn true history, folks. Great video, and thankyou for spreading the word about our wonderful actions in this period of history. 🇬🇧

[@SimplySavageReactions]

Although I've never thought anything negative about Great Britain, I have to admit that I was ignorant about this amazing piece of history. I was never taught this, ever. It's wrong and I wish I knew why it's not taught. This is just as important as Dr. Martin Luther King but it's not celebrated.

[@juliankaye8143]

It was by one vote, and according to my MP, even that was thought to be a mistake. The fact we bought slaves from people willing to sell them and then ship them to other countries to resell them again. Doesn't make anyone look good. Whether African, Eurooean or American. But those were the times and without a time machine we can't change it.

[@VickyF_]

@@SimplySavageReactions please look into some of the videos from Thomas Sowell regarding this topic. He's an African American man who details the British ending of the slave trade with intense accuracy! 🙏❤️

[@donquixote3927]

@@SimplySavageReactions: It should be remembered our nearest neighbours and fellow countrymen in Ireland were kept as near serfs, and driven abroad by want and hunger for the greater part of four hundred years.

[@josm1481]

@@donquixote3927 it should be remembered nearly all plebs were kept as serfs, no matter where they lived. An Irish aristocracy existed too, as did an African aristocracy.

[@5had0wTV]

I've been going people for years about us abolishing slavery yet they don't seem to believe me... It's literal fact! Thankyou for sharing this and sharing the fact that yes the British ruled alot if the world but yet we the most forward thinking people's. I'm so proud to be British and also very proud of my white skin like everyone should be proud no matter what colour they are. We all have our history and ancestors. So no I do not feel quilt and no person will ever make me feel so!!

[@cooldaddy2877]

The English/British have done damage all over the world for centuries. You had the largest and longest running empire in the history of the world. How do you think you get an empire...by handing out sweeties? England/Britain will forever be blamed for what it has done and until it hands back every inch of territory stolen for centuries. Hope you are proud. If you are proud of such a terrible history then that means you are also to blame and should be ashamed.

[@normanwallace7658]

The two Anthems of British pride "Rule Britania" & "Land of Hope & Glory" are austeniticly about Britain's Crusade to End Slavery both worth listening too always sung on the last night of the Proms!! You will recognise the pomp & circumstance music from us graduation ceremony's but you do not know the words written to accompany it they are an anti-slavery Anthem!!

[@billtomlin9954]

*ostensibly

[@dexstewart2450]

English pride - we have our own anthems, and some of them are about surviving English colonialism

[@choochter77gamer59]

@@dexstewart2450 Stewart is a British (Scottish) surname. Kind of suggests that your family were colonisers, whereas the folks who remained in Britain, were not.

[@abzzeus]

Rule Britannia has "Britons never will be slaves!" which is referenced by "freemen not slaves" in the Royal Navy March, Heart of Oak and the line "Her watchword is 'Justice' her password is 'Free',"

[@abzzeus]

@@dexstewart2450 Glasgow second city of the empire. The Scots were over represented (population wise) in plantation owners, colonial staff, governors etc. Scots prospered greatly from the empire.

[@tanyacampbell29]

I love watching reactions to this from Americans because none of them knows about it and I don't just mean the African slave trade but the slave trade in its entirety because it is not taught, probably for the very reason that they want to pit one race against another. Don't get me wrong Americans aren't the only ones who don't know about this, I have seen many different people from all over the world who never knew about this or even their country's involvement in the slave trade and it should be taught in schools as it's one of the most important parts of history not just how it ended but the beginnings of slavery as a whole. I have watched many reactions to this and yours is by far my favourite so far because I could tell you genuinely got something out of it. Thank you for reacting to it, I was the one who asked. P.S. The British taxpayer didn't stop paying off the debt that was spent on ending slavery until 2015.

[@Teverell]

I wish I could remember the title of the video but I saw a TED talk that basically traced racism as we know it back to the slave trade as 'justification' for enslaving Black Africans because they weren't white and therefore were considered less than human. An invention of one man in the seventeenth century that is the root of so much evil and injustice in the world today.

[@bethcushway458]

Historical education in other countries seems to be woeful. I had a big row with a Spanish man who flatly refused to accept that the Conquistadors did anything harmful to the native South Americans! He claimed they went over there with love in their hearts, taught the natives about the holy Roman church and made trade deals 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🙄

[@Girlybunches]

Animal husbandry is a common term for the science of breeding and caring for farm animals. Sounds a bit odd doesn’t it but I think it dates back a long time 14th/15th century?? Someone will let me know if I’m wrong here😊

[@StonedDragons]

It dates back to practically the dawn of human history, when we first domesticated those wolves that wouldn't immediately try and rip your face off and knowing it or not started allowing those to breed that were more chill around humans, raising them by hand to be used to us and all those things we still do with puppies till this day.

[@carlburton2705]

@@StonedDragons hello Steve its widely believe that the first wolves were self domesticated realising that life would,d be easier living along side those hairless apes and we would have took over from there

[@StonedDragons]

@@carlburton2705 That in no way contradicts what I said, though the self-domestication part is still very much up for debate. Either way it was the less aggressive wolves that would stick around, or be allowed to for that matter and thus would be allowed to breed and eventually become todays domestic dogs.

[@heartless1866]

@@carlburton2705 Hi, I'm a bioveterinary science student and I've done studies on the domestication of what we now know as the common domestic canine. It is not known the breed of wolf that was bred to create our domestic dogs however they were certainly not self domesticated, an animal that is self domestic is the common domestic cat. The first known "cat" was in the agricultural period when mice were attracted to human crops and the cats followed; the humans fed the cats to keep them around and scare away the rodents, this led to cats sticking around and breeding by themselves and humans kept them. Whereas dogs aren't self domesticated as humans kept them, housed them, and bred them specifically for behaviour as well as to keep them in a puppy like state. Hope this clarifies, here are some sources for this: Coren S, (2019). How much of dog behavior is linked to breed genetics? Retrieved from www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/canine-corner/201910/how-much-dog-behavior-is-linked-breed-genetics Rigterink A, Houpt K, 2014. Genetics of canine behavior: A review. World J Med Genet 2014; 4(3): 46-57. Retrieved from www.wjgnet.com/2220-3184/full/v4/i3/46.htm

[@butnooneshome]

@@heartless1866 away with you and your facts, and research, and authenticated sources. There’s no room on the internet for your sort 😂

[@Tvashk]

there is a reason Rule Britannia has these lines in its lyrics. Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves Britons never, never, shall be slaves we may have parsed great evil, but when we have to step up and take action we will stand for great good.

[@Teverell]

The other great song from the Proms, too: 'Land of Hope and Glory Mother of the free How shall we extol theee Who are born of thee?'

[@cooldaddy2877]

but happy to make others slaves....what a joke.

[@cooldaddy2877]

@@Teverell "Mother of the free"...tell that to the empire you created. Utter rubbish.

[@VickyF_]

If you're interested in this subject, Thomas Sowell is an African American expert on this subject. His work is absolutely phenomenal, comprehensive and exposes the big lie that's been told for decades about the global slave trade.

[@SimplySavageReactions]

Thank you, I will check that out.

[@russbillington6291]

Definitely worth watching, Thomas goes into great detail on the subject...a remarkable man..

[@richardkuehn7015]

Thomas Sowell is one of America’s greatest intellectuals and when he states facts he does mountains of research first as I’ve read books of his where 20% of the pages at the back of the book are just citing all his sources. His expertee’s is in economics but he’s so much more than that as his knowledge of history gained through his research is just about encyclopaedic! He is now 94 and his mind is still as sharp as a razor.

[@maggieattenborrow6725]

@@SimplySavageReactions Me too!!!

[@elizabethnicoll]

this should be taught in schools all around the world.

[@cooldaddy2877]

No. What should be taught is England/Britains involvement in slavery for centuries.

[@Hippydays1959]

I,m 64 years old and I was taught in history about our countries involvement in abolishing the slave trade. By the time my son went to school it wasn’t gone into in depth so I made a point of informing him….not sure why it isn’t taught in schools now.

[@ChrisR395]

@@cooldaddy2877 Well, someone is morally superior, aren't they. You do realise there are 27 million slaves in the world today, right? About 10 million slaves were involved in the Atlantic slave trade. What are you and your virtue signaling loser mates doing about that? What global online campaign's have you created? What awareness have you spread? Jack shit. Maybe we should teach about your laziness and apathy compared to the British in schools, hey? You are the very thing you hate, and it's funny that you don't see it.

[@markyoungman148]

@@Hippydays1959 It isn't taught now because it doesn't suit the lefty agendas of those otherwise obliged to teach it.

[@lizevans5434]

​@@Hippydays1959so was I, and I am 71.We had a well rounded education I think 😊😊

[@terencemolloy9450]

Thomas Sowell has a excellent video about the British Crusade Against Slavery.

[@marvinc9994]

Don't forget that "English soil" in this context includes British _ships_ - one of the reasons, doubtless, that there were quite a few black faces to be seen among the crewmen of Nelson's navy, as many a print from that era amply demonstrates!

[@dannyholden6042]

A little extra fact for you England only finished repaying the money it spent on freeing the slaves in 2015 that should give you some idea how much we as a nation truly spent buying all the slaves from other countries and setting them free. I'm proud of this nations history we all have a little blood on our flags but what people forget is that some of it is our own from trying to be better, not everyone can state that.

[@jswmonkey197]

UK of GB & NI.

[@catherinewilkins2760]

In 1748, the yet to be King George III wrote essays on his abhorrence of the slave trade, he would go on to give Royal assent to the abolition of this trade. The writing was on the wall.

[@Iluvantir]

From the UK: The debt we incurred for setting free slaves, and for stopping the trade and freeing other people's slaves, wasn't paid off until about 2015. Meaning I was paying for it, as was my father, grandfather, great grandfather. So. To all: You're welcome.

[@damedusa5107]

I want tax reparations for the money I’ve lost. Who do I sue? The kings of Benin? But seriously it annoys me that African Americans ask for money off Britain. Like we haven’t been paying it in tax for 180 years.

[@ellyboo8979]

@@damedusa5107 they’re not even African and actual Africans hate black Americans!

[@cooldaddy2877]

You paid because you were involved in slavery for centuries....dont you get it?

[@damedusa5107]

@@cooldaddy2877 how far back do you want to go? Is there a limit?

[@Iluvantir]

@@cooldaddy2877 Incorrect. I've never owned a slave. I've never taken one into slavery. I've never sold one nor transported one. Nor has my father. Or his. Or HIS. OR HIS. Go back another, oh... three or four generations, just to be safe. I've still ended up paying for the freedom of others. The same goes for any other Brit. And many others of us still fight and work to free slaves: those in the British Military. But whether or not Britain was involved in slavery (which we were, no point in denying... but then so was everyone!), WE were the first to not only outlaw it, but enforce that upon everyone else. When Britain held the reins of world power, that is what we did with it: stop slavery. For everyone. Imposed on everyone. Politics be damned, and national pride of other nations be damned. We enforced it, and crippled other nation's economies doing so because they would not play ball. I'll wait until you point out which other nation decided to expend it's blood, sweat, and treasure on the dissolution of slavery before us, or even to our effect. I'll also wait while you find any evidence that the slavery we were involved in was any different to slavery practiced throughout history (it was certainly better than that practiced by the Muslim Caliphate - they castrated their male slaves so they wouldn't breed), which OTHERS did nothing to stop... until we started that ball rolling. Hell, the Americans ended up fighting a war with themselves over it (worst thing they did: it would have cost less in money, and with ZERO bad feelings for beating the southern states, no loss of life, etc, if they had done as the British Empire did: pay the slave owners to free their slaves and make slavery illegal at the same time) - but they only did so due to pressure and shame from the world's first superpower doing what they would not - end slavery. It must gall you, that simple fact, that there's something to be proud of in the old British Empire. You want us to feel shame for it, for once trading in slaves? Tell me: what nationality are you? I could then point out when YOUR ancestors kept and traded in them. Pointless doing so, but it seems to be your level. I feel no shame for what others did, for that helps no-one. I feel pride for what my nation did - what no other did before us. England had no slaves within it's borders for nearly 900 years - utterly unheard of. But we're the "big bad". No other nation ever had an empire. No other people ever conquered their neighbour. All tribes in Africa were all sunshine and rainbows, never thinking of taking slaves, til we got there. (sarcasm, just in case that went over your head) Oh, wait: we found existing slave trades in Africa when we got there, and the Portuguese got there before us, and found the same. (sigh) I'm off to drink some tea while you continue to vent your idiocy.

[@regfenster]

British contributions to the world as a whole are massive, the modern world is more or less the model that other have followed with its birth in Britain, from the Magna Carter to the industrial revolution Britain shaped the modern world. Even the American constitution and its amendments are based upon old English Law. Yes there are moments of darkness within this empire, but overall it did more good than harm when compared to other empire building nations within that timeframe.

[@steveearis4786]

a very proud crusade for us Brits... i learned a lot when i first saw this. you should look into our industrial past, look up Fred Dibnah who did alot of programs or Mark Williams who did a series called on the rails.

[@anoldfogeysfun]

As an "Oldie" now - we were actually taught about our own History back then, even about the Slavery issue here, as well as other era's going right back to the Roman times . . . All of the various wars we were in, as well as the Industrial Revolution which also helped to make Britain/UK, the powerhouse and world leader/main superpower it was back then . . . It was only after WW1 & WW2 where we had huge debts to pay off, including still paying for what was spent previously towards slavery - was when the country itself was close to becoming bankrupt in the 1960's; and so could not afford to keep so many military bases overseas any longer . .. it was all about a lot of cut-backs then just to keep the country going, and when our large military forces (mainly naval) then began to dwindle as a smaller navy, only as less could be spent on it. All 3 of those debts were finally paid off between 2000-2015 . . . And lately of course, the pandemic showed up and put us back into more debt yet again . . . Thomas Sowell has also done a good one about this in 2 parts, I think, which you might also like to see or possibly react to, too?

[@GamingWithDaleUK]

As a British person i am ashamed to say that even i didnt know this.. why do we not get taught this in school? imagine the amount of conflict that would have never happened if everyone was actually educated on truth

[@russbillington6291]

This was taught in school, certainly in my day at secondary school in the early 80s..

[@GamingWithDaleUK]

@@russbillington6291 Well im 35 and it was never taught in my school

[@russbillington6291]

@Dale obviously a change in the education system in the mid 90s...but I also remember in my home city of Manchester in 98 during the world cup Manchester black cabs were not allowed to fly the George Cross in case it offended someone, so not surprised they stopped teaching Britans involvement in stopping the slave trade...it is what it is I guess.

[@paulknox999]

I do vaguely remember this from School days, it never really sank in then as I was not really interested in history when younger. 57 now so talking some years ago

[@helengunter378]

@@GamingWithDaleUK I learnt this at school in Britain, in the 80,s. Sadly times have changed.

[@thuggie1]

to be honest if you look at it one small collection of islands took on the world and won to abolish slavery in a way its almost supernatural in nature

[@cooldaddy2877]

No, not from a country that was at the centre of the slave trade for centuries.

[@thuggie1]

​@@cooldaddy2877 no it wasn't do your history

[@cooldaddy2877]

@@thuggie1 Yes it was. Even the British Parliament recognise that. It is you who needs to take off your blinkers, admit the many many many faults of your country.

[@ryan1111111555555555]

@@cooldaddy2877 Who ended slavery? Britain, and it will always be Britain whether you like it or not, WE THE BRITISH ENDED SLAVERY, SUCK ON IT.

[@billtomlin9954]

Like this guy. Very honest about what he knows and doesn’t. Very humble. Very open to learn. Fair to say there aren’t that many people in the US who take the time to learn about the history of other countries (why should they?). Subbed.

[@SimplySavageReactions]

Thanks so much. I try to be myself, even if I come off as an idiot sometimes lol. I do enjoy learning though so its ok I guess

[@JJ-of1ir]

It was never about the colour of a person's skin. It was about economics. More white people, non Muslims, were captured as slaves. They were dealt with in exactly the same way as the Africans would one day be treated. White men and boys were castrated in exactly the same way. Women were sold as sex slaves. England and the surrounding European countries were attacked by the Barbary Pirates, from North Africa. The Barbary Pirates would raid coastal villages and take whole communities - men, women and children. They often slaughtered the old, castrated the men and boys, 60% of whom died because of the rough way it was done, and take the women. Depending on the 'market', women were forced to walk through the desert and, if they couldn't keep up, were beaten and left to die in the sand. These raids were so common at one point, Fishermen would not put to sea for fear their families would not be there when they got back. They stayed at home, but no fish meant no money, which meant starvation. As countries protected themselves more, the slavers found it more and more difficult to get slaves. To find a Continent that sold its captured enemies as slaves opened up a new 'market'. It really didn't matter what the colour of a slave was. IMO

[@madyottoyotto3055]

Couldn't agree more well researched there Also it's the very reason we started the British Empire Well between them and the Viking who never stopped attacking coastal communities

[@pda3095]

Baltimore in the USA was named after the village in Ireland which was decimated by African slave traders,nearly ever inhabitant was either taken away or fled never to return. This was in 1631 June 20th .... now it’s the day after Juneteenth, oh the irony🤦🏼‍♂️

[@gordonsmith8899]

I strongly recommend: "The Forgotten Slave Trade - The White European Slaves of Islam" by Simon Webb

[@MrDodgedollar]

Correct

[@Teverell]

I have never in all my life been so proud of being able to say "I am British!" I knew some of that story, but by no means all of it. Yes, we have colonialism in our past, and other dark things, but to not learn about those things means also that we don't learn about this, and then the lies get perpetuated.

[@Belzediel]

There's a difference between colonialism and imperialism.

[@Oddballkane]

Also in India 🇮🇳. There was a thing called widow burning. The idea is once a husband died the wife was supposed to throw herself on a funeral pyre. The British saw this happening and told the person who told the wife to do that to do it instead. The British soon put a stop to it.

[@colettebishop2173]

Suttee. It still goes on, sadly

[@Korschtal]

Funny that. The British saw a woman being harmed and immediately reacted, yet it's western men that are the patriarchy, apparently.

[@colinhedges4689]

And the wives were often multiple “women” sometimes under 10 years old

[@jimmyhughes5392]

you have to consider that when it says that Africans were taken back to Portugal as items of curiosity, the currently uncontacted tribes left in the world and the way they react to visitors. people react in different ways to the unknown so all things considered being taken as an item of curiosity isn't all that barbaric compared to the latter

[@SimplySavageReactions]

Yea I guess you're right. Thanks

[@timglennon6814]

Just today they don’t call slave traders anymore, they call them Human Traffickers.

[@XclusiveAaron]

Great Britain rocks man!

[@cooldaddy2877]

No it doesnt. If you think so then you agree with the British Empire which stole, raped, pillaged and killed untold thousands of people for centuries. Learn your history.

[@damienlcfcoldsworth1308]

But Megan and Harry will have you think different, you can see why they are hated

[@loopyloo788]

Oh lord. Don’t get me started on those two 😡

[@everestyeti]

@@loopyloo788 😂🤣😂🤣

[@sampeeps3371]

Animal husbandry is the raising and breeding of livestock for milk, meat, clothing ect

[@SimplySavageReactions]

Oh okay lol I was hoping it wasn't something like marrying animals!

[@timothymarshall-nichols7823]

@@SimplySavageReactions you nutter lol ...love your channel ...Tim.London.U.K

[@ldewproductions7271]

Basically farming.

[@eccehomer8182]

@@SimplySavageReactions That only happens in certain areas of the UK.

[@SimplySavageReactions]

@@eccehomer8182 lol same in the US

[@omyJosSan]

No good deed goes unpunished... Look at that island now.

[@martinsear5470]

This is fine example of why The Woman King is such a joke of a film, they rewrote history in that movie turning the king of Benin into a hero. Its insulting to all the British Sailors, about 5000, who died fighting against the slave trade.

[@gordonsmith8899]

"To be sold outside the country" meant a ban on selling someone to slave trader to be sent abroad.

[@julianwatson2301]

And everybody around the world blames the brits, why?

[@brianshockledge3241]

Ignorance.

[@eccehomer8182]

@@brianshockledge3241 It's not ignorance. Britain has been the "Land of the free" for longer than anywhere else. If you can pull it and its values down the rest of the world will be easy.

[@brianshockledge3241]

@@eccehomer8182 Exactly my point the rest of the world are either clueless or choose to ignore Britain`s contribution to the world in which they live. The shite my grandchildren are indoctrinated with today is an absolute disgrace.

[@cooldaddy2877]

Because Britain raped, pillaged, stole and killed in so many countries. Britain had the largest empire the world has ever known. How do you think you get an empire?....by handing out sweeties. Grow up.

[@cooldaddy2877]

@@brianshockledge3241 No, through knowledge.

[@contemperis]

Every video I watch with you makes me glad I subscribed when i did. you are honest an that in itself is a beautiful thing. these days anyone can do anything online and unfortunatly a lot is missed or edited or lost in translation but you can see that none of your reactions are acted or edited to make more clicks etc. seeing your emotions in this video and your reaction to the information really shined through. I hope that everyone is ok over there.

[@SimplySavageReactions]

Comments like yours is what keeps me going, believing that this channel will be successful in time and it is literally because of people like you who support me. Hopefully I will be able to look back one day and know that all of the sleepless nights and countless hours working on this channel was worth it. I've been close to quitting so many times but you guys stop me from doing that and I'm so beyond grateful to have people like you that I am so proud to call friends.

[@contemperis]

@@SimplySavageReactions never let any form of self doubt stand in your way, i have every confidence in the channel and jn you to make it a success. My uni told me id be lucky to pass my degree with a 3rd and i ended up coming out 6 marks short of a 1st and a few years later my work was published in a magazine. Your hard work comes through in your videos, and i have enjoyed all your content and i will for time to come. I hope everyone is doing ok over there and all is well.

[@scottishemmaa2457]

@@contemperis I absolutely love these comments Robert and couldn’t agree more about James and the channel!

[@contemperis]

@@scottishemmaa2457 Comments online these days are normally short, quite rediculous because we have all seen the internet is known, at least in my neck of the woods, as the place for idiots and cat pics. with so many people making reactionary videos where they are screaming and jumping around just to try and seem the outragious or overly shocked to generate views or clicks for more income it is refreshing to see someone truthfully showing how they feel. also my eldest son is called james xD

[@jacksprat9172]

@@SimplySavageReactions There's a youtuber called 'Drachinifel' who covers naval history and he has a video on 'The West Africa Squadron' detailing the Royal Navies enforcement of the blockades of Africa, Brazil........well worth a watch. Subbed and good luck.

[@thet25adventuresofronniere81]

Great video, it's nice to some truths coming out about slavery and the slave trade...👍

[@chrisblyth6716]

It is true we are not taught the truth in history at schools much to our shame and have been walked over by the compensation culture. I wonder if Portugal and African countries along with Middle Eastern countries are being pursued and shamed by these people. Truth is inconvenient but a rich currency in a world of deceit.

[@user-jf1ky9to8w]

I remember learning this in year 8 (9th grade in US), that was over 20 years ago, if this is not still taught today it would be very, very sad.

[@colinfryett8174]

Between 1808 and 1860 the West Africa Squadron captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans. Around 2,000 British sailors died on their mission of freeing slaves with the West Africa Squadron.

[@bycromwellshelmet2369]

"... They loved the negro over the wave, They strove to set him free. But though I'm a little slave. There's nobody loves me." -- _The Climbing Boys' Lament_ (1834)

[@SimplySavageReactions]

Is that a poem?

[@bycromwellshelmet2369]

@@SimplySavageReactions Yes, though I misremembered the date. I believe it was from 1826, concerning the chimney climbing boys and other white labouring children (mostly orphans) that were sold to "industry", often sold to coal mines and factories. Recall _Oliver Twist_ "boy for sale", who was initially offered to a chimney master known for his cruelty before winding up with an undertaker where he was made to sleep in the cellar with the dead in their coffins. From memory, the poem goes (I may have missed a few lines), I'm young and cold and frightened oft When the dark flu I see With threats and (sticks?) forced up aloft Where nobody loves me My master beats me with a rope A cruel master he And I have neither friends nor hope" And nobody loves me. They loved the negro over the wave They strove to set him free And though I'm a little slave There's nobody loves me. If you want an online resource about child labour in Britain about the time of slavery, I'd suggest _spartacus school net._ (Sorry, but every time I give a link my posts never survive.)

[@xbox_junkie]

Britan was the biggest reason Canada ended up being a refuge for escaped slaves. Canada was apart of the empire from the time of its founding. So this is a history we can be proud of together.

[@timothymarshall-nichols7823]

that one hit you hard didnt it mate ...love your channel keep it up ...Tim.London.U.K

[@mariafletcher6603]

Yea but the amazing & mind boggling to me. There are a lot of country's much bigger than the UK. Yet Were just a small Island. it Does my head in every time I think about it. From UK 🇬🇧👍👍 b Safe take care where ever you are. PEACE ☮️🕊️🕊️ an old cockney gal.

[@scatton61]

Every UK taxpayer up until 2015 has contributed to the cost of implementation of the abolishment of slavery. the people who did the most trade in slavery were black Africans.

[@phillee2814]

My children are the first generation in six to eight who will not have paid part of the debts incurred by the UK treasury in freeing slaves through their taxes, from my great great great great great grandparents (or knock off one or two greats for some branches of the family tree) to the end of my working life.

[@pittarak1]

If the West African Squadron had been US, Hollywood would have made dozens of movies of this by now!

[@artj2657]

Thank you SO MUCH for this video❗️I applaud you 👌 Why is this not being taught in every school? 👌 I’ve subscribed❗️❤️

[@SimplySavageReactions]

I'm so glad that I've been enlightened to this truth. Tusk you for subscribing. I'm on a bit of a break right now reevaluating things but will be back soon

[@leeharwood9624]

The British are coming 🇬🇧 had a whole different meaning to the slaves back then ❤

[@billrand4138]

always amazes me that so many people dont know this

[@maggieattenborrow6725]

. WOW!!!!! I don't know how you appeared on my computer, I have no idea who you are, but I am SO glad to have found you, you are awesome. I watched and learned about the Dunblane Massacre, something I remember so well! and then I listened with you to The British Crusade Against Slavery, and I am amazed how little I knew of this heroric chapter in my Counties' history. Where did you find all this information??; I certainly wasn't taught it at school. You have made me feel very proud of my Country, just when we, as a Nation, are feeling somewhat battered and bewilldered by certain people who want to destroy what we are; what we believe in. Thank you.

[@cooldaddy2877]

Please continue to be proud of your empire which enslaved people, raped them, pillaged them and killed them.....all over the world for centuries.

[@paulbromley6687]

That’s all of us then we all have slaves in our histories

[@liverpoollass7600]

Please react to the food insider video USA v UK Macdonald's, make sure it's the longer video as that shows the difference in sizes, ingredients, and also the foods themselves. Keep the videos coming, loving the content. 👍 🇬🇧

[@magnolia7277]

The loan for paying for the freedom of every slave from their 'owners', taken out by the British government, was only paid off in 2015!!! We, the population, had been paying it off through our taxation since the abolition law was passed. It was the only way the owners would free them.

[@matthewwalker5430]

15:15 just to be clear, the castration thing only really happened to the slaves taken by Arabs in the East African Slave Trade and the North African Barbaries (who not only took MANY white European Slaves but actively raided towns, including along England's coast, and took people from their homes). Castration was not really a thing in the West African Slave Trade. Not sure if that clarification was necessary but it felt like it was worth saying, regardless of the fact that slavery, castration or not, was horrendous

[@detamarnogueira9002]

Slavery was never about ones skin colour. Slavery often doesn't come from racism but the other way around. Generally speaking sub saharan africa is a massive territory that was split by many, many small tribes along some kingdoms. This made it so that sub saharan africa was very prone to have many tribal wars and tribal raids that would amass many slaves that could be bough by merchants.

[@markymark13ification]

It is amusing but also frustrating why people of this age expect us to judge what our ancestors did hundreds of years ago. Taken in the context of the age the events happened in and what was the norms of the day why should any of us feel ashamed?

[@MargaretUK]

Well said 👍

[@cooldaddy2877]

You should feel ashamed if you are proud of your empire and all the evils it did.

[@MargaretUK]

@@cooldaddy2877 Every country has it's skeletons in the cupboard

[@cooldaddy2877]

@@MargaretUK But none moreso than Britain. History shows this.

[@MargaretUK]

@@cooldaddy2877 errmmmm.....Romans?

[@michaelcollier2686]

Mansa Musa (Arabic: منسا موسى, romanized: Mansā Mūsā; r. c. 1312 - c. 1337[a]) was the ninth[3] mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign. Musa is known for his wealth and gift-giving, and has sometimes been called the wealthiest person in history. His riches came from the mining of significant gold and salt deposits in the Mali Empire, along with the slave and ivory trade. At the time of Musa's ascension to the throne, Mali in large part consisted of the territory of the former Ghana Empire, which Mali had conquered. The Mali Empire consisted of land that is now part of Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, The Gambia, and the modern state of Mali. Musa went on hajj to Mecca in 1324, traveling with an enormous entourage and a vast supply of gold. En route, he spent time in Cairo, where his lavish gift-giving is said to have noticeably affected the value of gold in Egypt and garnered the attention of the wider Muslim world. Musa expanded the borders of the Mali Empire, in particular incorporating the cities of Gao and Timbuktuinto its territory. He sought closer ties with the rest of the Muslim world, particularly the Mamluk and Marinid Sultanates. He recruited scholars from the wider Muslim world to travel to Mali, such as the Andalusian poet Abu Ishaq al-Sahili, and helped establish Timbuktu as a center of Islamic learning. His reign is associated with numerous construction projects, including part of Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu. Musa's reign is often regarded as the zenith of Mali's power and prestige. Early reign Musa was a young man when he became mansa, possibly in his early twenties.[40] Given the grandeur of his subsequent hajj, it is likely that Musa spent much of his early reign preparing for it. Among these preparations would likely have been raids to capture and enslave people from neighboring lands, as Musa's entourage would include many thousands of enslaved people; the historian Michael Gomez estimates that Mali may have captured over 6,000 people per year for this purpose.Perhaps because of this, Musa's early reign was spent in continuous military conflict with neighboring non-Muslim societies.In 1324, while in Cairo, Musa said that he had conquered 24 cities and their surrounding districts

[@matthewwalker5430]

17:34 it basically meant that William felt, as the new King of England, the people of England belonged to him and him alone and so he forbid their sale. In a way he was saying "if you sell 1 of my subjects into slavery you will have to pay me for it".

[@gillcawthorn7572]

`Out of England` meant that no one living in England should take another English person and sell him or her to be taken abroad

[@MrDodgedollar]

It was an action of unintended consequences that lead to ostracism of world slavery

[@shelleyphilcox4743]

England had an abolition movement from the mid 11th century, prior to William the Conqueror. Wulfstan Bishop of Worcester convinced Bristol port to stop cooperating with the Gael Norse slavers operating out of Dublin. Dublin was the largest slave market in western europe from the 5th to the 12th century, largely fed by English, Welsh and Scots captives. They traded from Iceland to Iran, and as far south as the north African states of Morocco, Tunis, Tripoli and Algiers. Wulfstan was joined in his campaign by Lanfranc, William's tutor who he made Archbishop of Canterbury, who also abhorred slavery. William made these fines so prohibitive for people to keep people as slaves and trade in slaves, that it helped suppress the status of slaves and finally in 1102 it was almost completely suppressed when the church condemned it. However, there was still the Gael Norse slave markets and raids and the occasional illegal trading. In 1171, Henry II went to Ireland after the King of Leinster appealed for help regaining Leinster. At this point he negotiated, at the Council of Armagh, for all English slaves held in the kingdoms on island of Irelandto be freed.

[@KevinPugh-hq8rc]

Actually, in 2015 the UK government paid off the loan that used to pay 3,000 families that owned slaves for the loss of their “property”. 20 million pounds was raised in 1833.

[@clareprice6613]

Finally some facts I already knew this but glad you're putting it out there

[@matthewwalker5430]

There is as whole bunch this video doesn't cover either - such as the setting up of "Free Town" by the British. 1 of the problems of freeing captured slaves is what you actually do with them. These were people from small tribes, often from deep in Central Africa, who didn't speak English and who had been broken by their captors. In many cases their tribes and families had been wiped out and, worse, the British couldn't exactly escort them back to their home in Central Africa, right through the lands of the people who had captured them in the 1st place. So, what would they do? At first they tried to resettle them in London in the 1700s but, obviously, they struggled to adapt and had no way of really earning an income. As a result of their failure to adapt to British life, the British then set up a town in a place on the West African coast where Britain had influence, a place that was to become modern day Sierra Leone. That town was named "Free Town" and is the capital of Sierra Leone today. The residents still celebrate the founding of their city today and recognise the efforts of the British abolitionists in giving them their freedom. Another thing that isn't covered here is the British offering freedom to American slaves during the American War for Independence. America loves to paint the war as a fight for freedom against British tyranny and whilst they had some fair grievances, the idea that American independence was a "fight for freedom" is a bit rich when you understand that the British were offering to free any American slaves who would come and fight for Britain. Not only did they offer freedom, they followed through and many slaves who fought and survived the war were not only freed but actually given their own land in Canada, which remained in the British Empire. Meanwhile those slaves that had stayed in America after the war, rather than defect to the British, remained in slavery for almost another 100 years. "Land of the Free" indeed, lol

[@mehere6865]

William the Conqueror instilled anti slavery law in england in 1066

[@michaelcollier2686]

Unrelated to this subject - Please check out online videos about the following places, (1) The ancient City of York, specifically a road known as "The Shambles". The old City of York still has much of its Roman city walls where you can actually walk along the walls. Then there is York Minster which is a magnificent church with the most breathtaking stained glass windows, (2) Malham Cove, Gordale Scar in North Yorkshire, (If you do visit the village of Malham, can I personally recommend The Lister Arms where you can sit in front of an open fire with a cold pint and stumble back to your room after a hearty meal, 🙂👍(3) The Lake District, (4) Haworth, North Yorkshire (the home of the Brönte Sisters), (5) Cambridge, and finally, (6) anywhere is Scotland but for a real treat, visit the west coast of Scotland with the many spectacular island communities. In the UK, most vehicles have a manual gearbox and are quite small in comparison to vehicles in the US. If you drive on any of the roads in North Yorkshire or the Lake District, you will be alarmed at how narrow the roads can be, with the need for passing places to enable vehicles to pass when travelling in opposite directions. It certainly makes driving on the roads very interesting, especially as the roads tend to have high stone walls on either side blocking your view around corners. (Try watching the film, "Three men and a little lady", where the Americans drive around the roads of Oxfordshire in a mini car. You'll get the general idea).

[@elizabethmcintyre8529]

Love that your looking into this learning the truth about time it is learned all over proud to be british

[@coolperson962]

The word 'slave' itself comes from 'slav' as in the Slavic people. During the 9th century, Islamic colonists in the Iberian peninsula and along North Africa, enslaved the Slavic people of Eastern Europe (primarily around the Bosnia region) hence the etymology.

[@SimplySavageReactions]

You see this is what I'm talking about. You guys teach me so much. There's been a handful of people that insult me for being a stupid American but I can't help that I was never taught this stuff. I'm not a genius by no means, but I'd like to think that i have average intelligence. I love learning. If you know everything then you won't be receptive to learning new things so I try to learn as much as I can. You guys have been so amazing, educating me. I now know what he meant when he said that the word slave comes from slav meaning Slavic people thanks to you.

[@coolperson962]

@@SimplySavageReactions Oh I missed the part where he said it in the video! 😂 Well at least I expanded on it anyway!

[@michaelatkins4501]

Animal husbandry ....the science of breading and caring of animals ( farming basically )

[@paulbromley6687]

So maybe the British Empire wasn’t so bad after all.

[@CrazyInWeston]

Every empire in history had its bad points, you can't argue about that. However the British empire actually did so much good to the world. It ended slavery (by law we all know illegalities still happen even today, but the point is its by law slavery is now illegal everywhere.) Britain brought education and democracy to many countries that were before under dictatorship rule, plus Britain didn't even rule its territories by force, we set up local assemblies so that the countries were ruled by democracy. We also invented a lot of stuff with the industrial revolution and therefore literally modernised most of the globe! If someone ever says that the British empire was bad I'll say every empire had its bad points but the British empire really did do more good than harm. Of former empires, only ex British ones have a more success rate in having a good standard of life and economy. Some countries even regret leaving the empire at all because their lands fell back into dictatorships like Yemen for example. Under British rule they had peace, now its a civil war torn place.

[@michaelbailey8729]

If it had been any of the others France, Spain, etc. it would of been a different outcome.

[@Paul-hl8yg]

@@michaelbailey8729 If Henry viii hadn't for his own reasons or not, ended catholic rule over us.. History would most probably have been very different. The Usa may never have happened, perhaps French/Spanish catholic empires, instead of English/British being globally dominant. Imagine the world run by the then very harsh catholic church? The church endorsed slavery. If it weren't for Britain's vast empire & power, the slave trade may have gone on for much longer & black people suffering for many more years. It is a great thing England/Britain stood up to the catholic church all those hundreds of years ago, otherwise our freedoms today would never have happened. 🇬🇧

[@michaelbailey8729]

@@Paul-hl8yg thats pretty much where I'm coming from mate. They were far more treacherous than us. Thats not to say weve not done some stupid things like trying to re establish the French and Dutch in Indo China after WW2 for a more recent example. Churchill stood up to Hitler alright but beyond that his vision was abysmal.

[@Paul-hl8yg]

@@michaelbailey8729 I suppose if we look at fate, Churchill had a reason & i think without him we may never had succeeded. He gave us that morale i suppose. I never think of the empire as a negative thing, in that without it the world would be very different now. I am sorry for any negatives we did but i know we did better than any other empire. 🇬🇧

[@patrickfitzpatrick7254]

Everyone should thank William the conqueror for banning slavery in 1066

[@lecturesfromleeds614]

European history and American history are not comparable, for example in England it hasn't been legal to own slaves since the end of the Viking age and even then most slaves the Vikings took were white. Britain never had racial segregation it was segregated via a class system, some trains still have signs indicating where first, second and third class carriages are. Also there was no such thing as a British citizen everyone was a "subject of the British Empire" including people in Britain, so no immigration restrictions were in place between the areas under British rule, which is one of the reasons that so many Indians migrated to Africa (Though that's not to say that racism didn't exist) But you don't see the level of racial tensions between black and white people in the UK like you do in the US, because it's never been legal to own Black slaves in Britain and Britain doesn't have any mainstream racist organisations specifically against black people like America's KKK. It was once said that Britain is the only country that has had over a million mixed race Black/White children that was not a product of colonialism or slavery, though in the Northern colonies in America many free black people had children with working class servants from Ireland, Scotland and Northern England this is one of the reasons millions of black people have European DNA and white people have African DNA in America. The date of the abolishment of slavery is the same date as "Yorkshire day" which is fitting, seem as though it was a Yorkshireman William Wilberforce that ended slavery with significant support from the working class

[@MrPicklerwoof]

Sadly, this doesn't chime with the people who run the British schooling system so gets conveniently ignored in classrooms. We are no longer allowed to have a balanced factual view of our past, only cherry-picked examples of the bad things to fit a narrative.

[@cooldaddy2877]

Maybe because the bad things greatly outweigh any good things?

[@doubledigital_]

we also made a tank that makes cups of tea very practical we are lol

[@mickeyminime7556]

I believe it means they kept them like animals and bred them like animals. So once a slave gave birth to a child, that child was also a slave. I think i heard about it in a roman documentry.

[@coltsfoot9926]

One of the main reasons for the massive debt accrued by Britain in abolishing slavery was that once the slave trade was stopped, a pragmatic decision was taken to get rid of slavery on the plantations by buying the slaves' freedom, and keeping the goodwill of the plantation owners, rather than upsetting them by sending soldiers to take the slaves away from the plantations. Remember that Britain still relied on trade with the colonies to keep the wealth flowing. Even so, it was a massive undertaking that removed slaves from the British Empire, and several other countries as well.

[@tobytaylor2154]

Frankie Boyle is just a scot who's got a chip on his shoulder with us English. One part I wished was mentioned is, plenty of slaves joined the royal navy once freed, they faced Africa to be recaptured etc, America to be a slave or become one of the ships company, fed, free and paid.

[@KayosHybrid]

As a British citizen, I am ashamed of everything fucked up we do in this country, currently and historically. As anyone conscientious should - we should not refuse to look away from the fucked up shit our country has done. Boyle is a great comedian and makes very good criticism. But Britain is an ancient nation and has plenty to be ‘proud’ of. Like who cares.

[@miff227]

Good to see an old Sargon video. He eventually set up his own media company The Lotus Eaters (The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters on YT) where they do similar deep dives into subjects as well as chat about daily news etc.

[@lilyandrose8557]

Awesome reaction, thanks for doing it; if you are interested to see a movie based on those times, I can heartily recommend Belle' from about 2013, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

[@andyf4292]

the bible says its ABSOLUTELY FINE

[@Ironage99]

I used to live in Brazil, in Pernambuco (like a state in Brazil). The place I lived is Porto De Galinhas which translated means Port Of Chickens. Now slavery was illegal then BUT ships came to the port and asked to buy chickens which was code for slaves.

[@samuel10125]

I'm proud we did this but it's also important we remember we played our part in the trade aswel for a few year.

[@barrywood7322]

I totally agree, I’m a proud Brit i know we did some questionable things but we also did a lot of good just think how many still want to be in the commonwealth . We can’t put today’s standards on the past who knows in the future we may be held in the same distaste.

[@cooldaddy2877]

@@barrywood7322 Most countries in the commonwealth are poor countries who stay in it for easy trade. Britain spent centuries grinding those small countries into the ground and telling them they cant survive without their "English master". The sad fact that you had an empire kinda says it all.

[@ericpike6949]

people often make the mistake of thinking that slevery was about race when it certainly wasn't, it was all about money

[@steve55sogood16]

We, in the U.K. are generally ignorant of our role in the abolition of slavery, which is a pity!

[@dawnfishwick861]

Thank you for saying thank God for Britain, just wish more people from Britain felt the same, so many woke people about who seem to hate their own country

[@rebeccagoldsack3295]

Hi Im a young Grandmother of 2 from the Uk and I have enjoyed your videos and wanted to say that you can’t possibly grasp the history of the people of England and the Uk from the bites of information on YT. It is very complicated because of the sheer amount of invasions and conquests around the entire globe. But I am just letting you know that ANIMAL HUSBANDRY is just rearing and breeding farm animals. Lol 😂 also just a quick note from a previous video where you asked if it was AGAINST THE LAW TO DIE !!! 😂 We do have a Law still to this day in Parliament ( parliament is the huge old building attached to the Tower with Big Ben ) saying that Suicide is a criminal offence, BUT I’m sure you can work out that we don’t actually charge and give criminal records to those people who have attempted to commit suicide, it’s one of many laws that we have never updated in centuries. It is great to have the NHS ( our National Health Services which every country in the UK is included. I have seen how unfair the health services are to the people in the US that are not wealthy or working and even if they do work they often don’t have health insurance and to people who can’t work and that need health care the most are left in debt just to survive. Looking forward to seeing your understanding of the UK history and the state we are in nowadays. Most of what people do videos about the British isles ( it’s just another title of ours to confuse you ) lol 😂 don’t often get our history right which is ok because even me who was born and brought up ( grew up ) am not even halfway through understanding the history of England and the Uk😮. Take care and I will be watching your videos and seeing how far you are led astray by incorrect information you get when you’re getting your information just from the videos you watch and react to. I sincerely wish you all the best ( another English saying) 👍

[@marvinc9994]

The American writer and suffragist Alice Duer Miller (1874 - 1942) put it rather well in her moving poem _The White Cliffs_ , when she wrote: "I am American bred, I have seen much to hate here- much to forgive, But in a world where England is finished and dead, I do not wish to live. " A long poem - but an amazing one, which ALL Anglophile Americans (and ALL British schoolchildren) should read.

[@stephenbesley3177]

I don't know when Frankie was last in a hospital but I can say having been that our hospitals are the model of racial intergration. Regardless of the sate of the NHS racism is not an obvious factor. One should not ignore the number of white slaves taken throughout the middle ages by Barbary corsairs. One of the lesser know reasons for Willim of Normandy invading England was to control both sides of the Channel against corsairs. Saxon women had become particularly prized as slaves.

[@davidrowlands441]

Hardly anybody in UK knows about this, its not taught in our schools.

[@cooldaddy2877]

Nor is the evils committed around the world in the name of England/Britain for centuries.

[@savagesnayle301]

@@cooldaddy2877 what evils like allowing people like you to spout racist hatred without imprisonment or fine?

[@boomstick2503]

Animal husbandry is basically having the knowledge and skills to look after livestock aka farming

[@TinaCBR750]

I'm from the UK, and I really wish that they taught us this in school !

[@Smiler7]

On 28 August 1833 the UK Parliament passed legislation that abolished slavery within the British Empire, emancipating more than 800,000 enslaved Africans. As part of the compromise that helped to secure abolition, the British government agreed a generous compensation package of £20 million to slave-owners for the loss of their ‘property’. The Bank of England administered the payment of slavery compensation on behalf of the British government. " They had to the buy the slaves from the Plantation owners to set them free!! That was equivalent to £20 BILLION today.

[@josm1481]

When Britain abolished it's slave trade about half a dozen African kingdoms complained! King Gezo of the Dahomey was on record saying he'd do anything the British asked but give up slavery. Britain signed about 50 anti slaving treatise with West African kingdoms and any that refused to stop got bombarded into stopping. The slave port of Lagos, Nigeria was one such location. Lagos renamed it's independence square after a local slave trader. You can see a statue of her there today. When the transatlantic slave trade had largely stopped, they diverted ships to East Africa to stop the Arab slave trade. They stopped patrolling East Africa in the 1970's. Look up the photos from the HMS Sphinx that captured Arab slavers in Oman and the sailors breaking off the chains of the African slaves in 1907?

[@Oddballkane]

Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products. It includes day-to-day care, selective breeding, and the raising of livestock

[@Loki1815]

I havent finished the video yet but so far, no mention of Boudicca and her daughters against the Roman Empire! Brilliant Statue at the Victoria Embankment, opposite Big Ben! She gets very little mention in any of these videos.

[@derekwhite2929]

That was then, history's being rewritten now.

[@SimplySavageReactions]

Sadly your right, you have to dig for the true facts of history. I fear that it's deliberately being replaced with the narrative that the powers that be want

[@cooldaddy2877]

no not really. Britain had an empire which killed, maimed, raped, pillaged, banned languages, banned native teaching, endorsed slavery and so much more. Thats the truth.

[@omegasue]

Thank you for your deep respect ❤

[@jeanneale9257]

Great reaction mate Slavery is endorsed in the Christian bible Disgusting

[@Paul-hl8yg]

The old testament even gives laws to how one should treat their slaves! 👍

[@The_real_Arovor]

Not endorsed, but allowed. And the rules for slavery in Israel were actually pretty fair towards the slave. After all the bible is just a historical document as any other. Same goes for most religious scriptures by the way, non of them were against slavery as far as I know.

[@Paul-hl8yg]

@@The_real_Arovor Fair laws for fellow jewish slaves yes but harsher laws for non jewish slaves. One point that the bible twists, is how the jews bark on about their slavery in Egypt & then make a homeland, then keep slaves themselves. And according to the bible, their deity is all ok with that. Yes slavery was common back then, it shows however that the texts themselves were certainly man made, going along with what was considered the norm of the times.

[@eccehomer8182]

As is mentioned in the video, before Britain did something about it slavery was ubiquitous... it was the norm.

[@donquixote3927]

@@Paul-hl8yg: Only the Arabian religion claims to have directly dictated scripture verbatim from the Allamighty.

[@sarahshaw7315]

What people forget is that while slaves had a 10-20% mortality rate, the sailors had up to 37% on average at the time… the worse of the age of scurvy got up to 50%.