@Nightcrawler's comment on 'TIL that in 1833 Britain used 40% of its national budget to free all slaves in the Empire : todayilearned'

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!britbongs look at the utter ingratitude of these colonials

Paying slave-owners to give up their "property" is clearly worse than saying they get nothing and doing all the rest.

You are right they should have instead continued slavery for a further 60 years, allowed slaves to be continued to be exported from Africa then had a massive civil war over it getting about 700,000 people killed.

Well it would have been more dramatic that way, yes.

How about they try to end the Israel vs. Palestine conflict they caused.

Fun fact: Israel has no right to exist because it should still be the British Mandate of Palestine.

Crazy how many of the "oppressed" countries continue with slavery even without the option to sell to the Brits

You use oppressed in quotation marks and in the same sentence confirm slavery is ongoing in these countries. We still have to call people stupid here.

POC enslaving each other is wypipo's fault :dasrite:

not baller. imperialism is never baller no matter how you try to disguise its intentions. remember, the British always have some other kind of angle — empires never do anything out of kindness.

This is one of the few examples of an empire doing something out of pure altruism. Britain felt like it was their duty to abolish slavery even though that didn't benefit them and cost them and unimaginable some of money. This is a unicorn in terms of imperial actions, there was no gain and a lot of loss and they did it anyway.

:marseyangel:

Instead of buying their freedom you could've just...ya know...freed them.

Edit: You people down voting do realize that you're advocating for compensating slave owners with British tax dollars.

:brainletchest: British tax dollars

Angry Sexy Indian dudes

The British had slaves in Indian until the beginning of the 20th century though.

They like to use the words like "indentured servitude", but it's the same kind of shit

Its very much different. Indentured servant is voluntary. It is essentially a contract to work for a set amount of time (5 years) in exchange for something.

Yet kept indians enslaved until 1947

There is a reason ghandi always spoke highly of British rule in general, his problem was less with the rule and more with the fact indians were not the ones doing it, fair enough obviously, his objection was imperialism rather than the system.

You talk to people as if they must be unaware, i know you are referring to the fixed labour contracts unique to the indians, which is essentially akin to indentured servitude but pretending the numbers of people involved in that which is not really slavery (you can pretend this is universally agreed by historian's if you really want) is the same as it continuing slavery is disingenuous and also pretending this was remotely relevant in 1947 is also disingenuous.

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Gruesy_Spoon check/bio Que sera, sera 4mo ago #6700212

Smh history is just a series of handouts to the rich !historychads

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Nightcrawler XMan/XMas Those whom I love, I reprove and chasten; so be zealous and repent. Gruesy_Spoon 4mo ago #6700221

@RWBY summoned the coomer squad and they're being racist/judgemental towards my wife downthread :marseysad:

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RWBY Gambol/Shroud Chapose was a good admin :marseysummerrose:

Nightcrawler 4mo ago #6700230

You praised the historical Spanish Empire earlier,

Yet you don't actually appreciate giga coomers with tropical fever? :marseyconquistador: :marseycoomer2:

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nuclearshill gau/cho RWBY 4mo ago #6700276

I thought Corinthian was a Philipino/Spaniard mestizo

ElverGalarga El/Rey RWBY 4mo ago #6700461

Wow, not enough historical appreciation for the coomerism of the founding fathers like Thomas Jefferson--AND the silly Spaniards legitimized their offspring instead of owning them like property, so gross.

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Emoji Award given by @Gruesy_Spoon: "marseyderp"

nuclearshill gau/cho Gruesy_Spoon 4mo ago #6700231

>handout

Most of the money was spent on the Royal Navy to capture slaver ships and destroy slave markets in the African coast not on reparations for former slave owners. Brazil abolished the slave trade under British pressure as !macacos continued to import BIPOCs as late as the 1840s.

!historychads

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Christmace Dino/Dinos i fricking love Parasaurolophus so much :chudsaurolophuslove:

nuclearshill 4mo ago #6700246

Slavery was not abolished in Brazil :marseysopa: until Lula led the working :marseylifting: class to rise up against right :marseygasden: wing dictators and neocolonialism from the west

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nuclearshill gau/cho Christmace 4mo ago #6700297

This is what nordestinos actually believe

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nuclearshill 4mo ago #6700301

:#carpagreefast:

LilGodfatherontheprairie An/offer :marseygodfather:

this is who I am now nuclearshill 4mo ago #6700260

:#popcorn:

BushWasRight free/dom There's no ideology but liberal democracy :marseyliberty:

and Fukuyama :marseyreactor:

is its prophet nuclearshill 4mo ago #6700559

Much later than that, US still had time to joined the patrols and they only did so after civil war.

Slave smuggling only truly stopped when Britain and other Imperialist powers went after the suppliers

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nuclearshill gau/cho BushWasRight 4mo ago #6700579

Yes but the Brazilian congress passed the "Eusebio Queiroz" law in 1850 banning the Slave trade. It was known as "lei pra inglês ver" or "law for the English to see", which means it existed on paper only so the British would stop whining while the trade continued in illegality.