Thomas Sowell - The Biggest Lie About Slavery | Why isn’t this being taught in schools?

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[@existentialvoid]

This is just the surface of the topic. But it takes a very brave historian to go against this ideological grain.

[@HowlinWilf13]

Thanks for the interesting video, Malik! Just to be clear - Britain's Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act in 1807, prohibiting the slave trade across the British empire, and then passed the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833, abolishing slavery itself. Britain also created the West Africa Squadron of the Royal Navy for the sole purpose of protecting Africa from slave traders in 1807. Between 1807 and 1860, this squadron seized approximately 1600 ships involved in the slave trade and freed approximately 150,000 Africans from these ships. The Royal Navy had destroyed the combined French and Spanish fleets in 1805 at the battle of Trafalgar, and, only 2 years later, was now using this unchallenged power to destroy the slave trade. It could reasonably be argued that this was the first time in human history that a single organisation (the RN) had possessed enough range and enough power to actually take on the task of stamping out the slave trade. Well done, the Brits!

[@babyamy3884]

Have you watch - how Britain abolished slsvery

[@babyamy3884]

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