re: I feel like Britain's 50 year war against the slave trade is under-taught part of history

If it’s under-taught it’s because nobody can make money from it.

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You think Great Britain created the institution of African slavery?

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Good lord.....that's not what I'm saying whatsoever.

Take the creation of our country, for example. Under British rule, we would not have been able to do away with slavery even if we wanted to. The amount of taxes levied on tobacco farming alone wouldn't allow for it. GB abolished slavery in 1807. It's an easy assumption this was a response to American's new independence...


....seeing as how they very conveniently continued to allow slavery in the British Caribbean until 1834.

The British have a LONG history of doing whatever benefits them while turning their nose at others for doing the same. England had the strongest economy in the world in 1800. They just wanted to try and prevent other countries from using slavery to boost theirs.

yeah....they had such a moral high ground regarding slavery that they stopped purchasing goods from Southern states and officially backed the North in the Civil War......oh wait....neither of those happened.

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I think we need a separation of politics and classroom discussion.

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So long as the teacher is a dude in a dress grinding on a stripper pole for second graders then I fully support the concept of no politics in the classroom

Britain profited on slavery , then shut it down I order to prevent France and Spain from profiting on it. Britain had an objective. They didn’t do this for moral conscious reasons.

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The prevailing right wing philosophy is that you can’t teach the history unless it aligns with their preconceived and uneducated fantasies about how the information makes them feel.

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Lying clowns going to be lying clowns.

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both sides

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Ugh

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The prevailing right wing philosophy is that you can’t teach the history unless it aligns with their preconceived and uneducated fantasies about how the information makes them feel.

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Lol

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I think we need a separation of politics and classroom discussion.

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That won't work out the way you imagine it will

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Britain did not gain any financial benefit from this, it was purely of the heart.

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Britain did not do this out of love and compassion. They did this to take away resources from their rivals, such as France, Spain and their former colony of America. It was about restricting access to cheap labor resources in an effort to weaken their foes and to continue Great Britain's domination of the globe at that time.

It was also easy for them to "take the high road" and deny others access to slaves, while GB itself, essentially had an entire private island to pull cheap, almost slave-like labor from in the form of the Irish.

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Slavery was a mistake. If those damn farmers would have hired cheap labor instead our country would have been a lot better.

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With the exception of prostitution, slavery is the world’s oldest profession. It’s existed since the genesis of civilization.