Black History Month; destroying the myths. No. 3 Only black people had ancestors who were slaves
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- There is a wholly false idea circulating in both Britain and the United States that only the ancestors of people of African origin were slaves. This mad notion is all but universally believed. In fact, few places have suffered more from slavery and the slave trade than the British Isles and many of the people living there today have distant ancestors who were slaves.
Haywood, John (2008) The Great Migrations, London: Quercus
Pelteret, David (2001) Slavery in Early Medieval England, Martlesham: Boydell Press
Strabo (1923) Geography, Loeb Classical Library
Trevellyn, G.M. (1942) A History of England, New York: Longmans Green
Williams, Brenda (2006) Ancient Britain, Andover: Jarrold Publishing
Slavery is alive and well in Africa and Islamic counties ... Change my mind..
Also in China, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. There have been reports, in the recent past, of Thai trawler owners and rubber plantation owners holding Burmese slaves.
@Alex Mit only west isnt thats why is being targeted so much. the elite cannot have free wealthy people walking around on earth they just gotta ruin with marxism
Don’t forget about the slaves found in the textile/clothes factories in the uk over the last few years, oh yeah, we not allowed to talk about that 🤫🤭
Many blacks in North Africa trying to escape to Europe have been enslaved by the modern-day Barbary Pirates.
Alive and well in the UK too!
Certainly never felt guilty about being white. Never.
I never have and never will.
Same
@The_Jaguar_ Knight Do you think White people are the evolutionary pinnacle of mankind?
‘Feeling guilty about being white’ is pure fiction invented by blacks and white liberal academics for political purposes. In all my life, even at University, I ‘ve never met anyone who felt such guilt, only pride.
I'm proud to be white & English.🇬🇧 Great video, Simon.
I'm proud to earn a living and to think freely but of my skin colour? That's pretty weak, whatever your colour.
@@LeeGee I doubt you're paid enough to think.
@@LeeGee you should be proud of your color. whatever your colour is...
Be proud of your achievements in life.
@Ming The Mirthless I can see where the 'mirthless' came from ..
It’s amazing what garbage people will believe these days, instead of doing their research of the truth and, of course, listening to your wonderful videos Simon. I am proud to be a white English man myself, and I have nothing to apologise for.
I am proud to be a part of the most creative and inventive racial group in history. Whites (particularly white males) have produced more geniuses than any other.
Trouble is people dont take the time and just believe what they see in the media.....
Instead of being taught how to think, students are now being taught what to think; many come out of university dumber than when they went in!
Doing your own research instead of believing what others (including Simon) tell you is key.
@@vigilanceman7246 Yes indeed. I don't always agree with everything he says and he isn't always right.
I remember vaguely on my last trip to the UK reading about how as late as the 1830s the coal mine owners were allowed to pay their workers in tokens and not real money. These tokens could only be spent in shops owned by, you guessed it, the mine owners. It's not exactly slavery but I'd argue it was a kind of modern serfdom.
That's absolutely true. It was far worse though: Miners, using those tokens, had to buy their own tools for mining - picks, shovels, candles and so on. The mine owners had it too good. Are you aware that miners in the UK might also belong to the mine owner? It's called a Miners Bond. It existed until 1872. Effectively, miners contracted their lives away to mine owners. Miners could actually be imprisoned for refusing to work - slavery. This is where the great unions of Britain began. Miners fought back.
If you ever get the time, take a look at the NUM and its history in Durham City (UK). They have an actual copy of a miners bond. It's horrific to read.
There were laws called the Truck Laws that made it law that employees had to be paid In cash, they were repealed under Tony Bliar's government to allow employers to pay into bank accounts.
@@garysmith1931 Look at the date of those laws and the reason they were introduced.
@@jackking5567 wow. Thanks for that, clearly I only knew a fraction of how bad things were. Yikes
Plantation,pit or mill?
Any difference🤔
At least one's nice weather and abolished first
Shows how little history has been taught in schools for nearly a generation now.
The only subject taught in schools today is antiwhiteism.
Somebody needs to Show that Forcing the School system on you Against Your Will Isn't Freedom Either. More like a jail sentence Stealing many of your Best Years. This is coming from a school teachers son. And Yes, my Dad is proud of me for Exposing that.
For over 300 years, the coastlines of the south west of England were at the mercy of Barbary pirates (corsairs) from the coast of North Africa, based mainly in the ports of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. These pirates enslaved whole families and destroyed lives.
They will never acknowledge this or even research it just in case it's true for then they lose they're victim hood status that they cling to so desperately and ruin the they're white man bad narrative
Read the book White gold
They only took black slaves from the UK, they all lived in Cornwall
They took people from along the south of Europe along the med as far as Spain and to Britain Ireland and Iceland .
@@smallfeet4581 us president Thomas Jefferson sent us navy and marines to fight Barbary pirates
I've never been guilty of being white
Unfortunately, a great many of our leaders are and they are quite willing to destroy us to assuage their guilt.
No guilt here, only pride.
Same here, I'm white and proud of British History, all races and countries have both good and bad history and no one, not even black people can ignore that slavery existed long before whites had slaves., They are just as guilty of being descending from slave traders or families who owned slaves
I do not wear the cast offs of bygone men and women I am here by God and not by accident. .I am not what this world assumes of me.My true worth can only be counted by God So be with you all All humans occupie a most precarious position on this earth. We should consider it a miracle that we made it to the grade of humanity It is a auspicious gift not to be squandered and lost
@@grahamt5924 Always exploited have been the working class and there offspring When you are white you instinctively know this .Their smug little trick of saying We feel guilty for present day black people because of past slavery. This is an utter slur upon any white working class Some are born blind and some choose not to see Greed
Enjoying listening to this white history month. It’s inclusive
Fantastic because yes its more about white history
Exclusivity is supreme.
Funny thing is AMERICAN BLACKS of TODAY, who use colonial-era slavery as a kind of license to hate and badmouth white people, should actually be GRATEFULL that their West African ancestors were plucked out of West Africa and brought over to THIS country four centuries ago. If not for slavery or colonialism blacks in Africa would all be living like this czcams.com/video/YQjec7Pohgo/video.html . .. and I guarantee you that THEY wouldn't prefer THAT.
@@veegar9265 The appear to be very happy and who are we to judge? No doubt our ancestors hat similar bizarre rituals in prehistoric times.
Yes, according to the dictionary definition. Colloquially, "inclusive" means antiwhite.
We can not keep hiding from the truth!!! Bravo dear sir!!! Peace Solidarity Truth
what is black history ?Somalia's history is unique in comparison to say Jamaican? Its akin to saying "they all look the same" ?
These people do not care about history in Africa. Its all about how terrible their ancestors were treated in Britain or by a British person and how even today it affects their daily life. Also its about how they invented heaps of stuff and rebuilt Britain after the war.
Nothing g but rubbish lies and jealousy of other being better.
Good point.
Funny thing is AMERICAN BLACKS of TODAY, who use colonial-era slavery as a kind of license to hate and badmouth white people, should actually be GRATEFULL that their West African ancestors were plucked out of West Africa and brought over to THIS country four centuries ago. If not for slavery or colonialism blacks in Africa would all be living like this czcams.com/video/YQjec7Pohgo/video.html . .. and I guarantee you that THEY wouldn't prefer THAT.
@@veegar9265 that’s assuming that they would not have been killed if not useful.
thank you Simon... you are a beacon of truth , in this ocean of deceit
You know you're hungry when you see beacon of Truth and automatically think bacon
@@7ItalianStallion And sausages! - Ah, but, sausages were once known as links, as in a chain, and they lined up like slaves in a chain.
Now that's torn it, I'll be getting sausages a bad name. Banned, even. I'm having sausages and bacon tonight 🤣 !!
Agreed.
However, he never criticizes his HebrewTribe ofZionists.
@@sticksnstonespatriot1728 Maybe that's because those people and you know who aren't allowed to be criticized?
@@eph2817 Agreed.
The "Unspeakables".
I just wish people would see what is happening. "Diversity" has been weaponized against the west by the "unspeakables".
I saw the 'Black History Month' posters up in Sainsbury's yesterday attempting to attract black customers..lol.
Also in Argos, part of the same business group. It seems rather pointless, and patronising.
The problem is, if we boycott all these woke companies there will be nowhere to shop!
I won't be using Sainsbury.... Other supermarkets are available.
Like virtually every advert on TV at the moment
@@tanfosbery1153 One can only hope that is a passing fad and sense will eventually be seen...
My ancestors were slaves under the MIners Bond in Great Britain. A system abolished in 1872.
Same here, and a 7 year old working down a mine.
I wonder if anybody have heard about the Crimean Khanate, a Turkic state which existed in modern day Ukraine and conducted large scale raids into Eastern Europe for the sole purpose of capturing slaves. Estimates suggest that over 3 million Eastern Europeans were enslaved as a result of these raids, most of whom were exported to the Ottoman Empire.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean-Nogai_slave_raids_in_Eastern_Europe
Yes - before the Russians annexed the Crimean Khanate in 1783.
The Gold Star for how to treat fellow human beings in most horrific ways, goes to is lamb. See David Wood's early video's particularly.
The best history lesson I have had for years.
Slavery is alive and well in most of the world with the exception of Western Civilization. Especially in Africa!
There is slavery in Leicester, organised and run by non-British people, using some of the people who come over on boats
@@suemassey5076 I can well believe that. Probably organised by some of the people who came over on boats too.
Depends upon one’s definition of slavery… for today wage slavery exists in all of THEIR countries.
@@inhocsignovinces1419 The definition of Slavery is where one person owns another and puts them to work. Wage Slavery is a Colloquialism.
Only Westernkind has abolished slavery.
One of the most discriminated upon groups in history were children. Can you do a video on Victorian children in the mills and workhouses?
Wasn't recognised for what it was. Once read about a family whose child was crushed to death in a carpet factory and they had to pay for the carpet. Also chimney sweeps but they were white children, very little privilege in my ancestry
Absolutely, if I could I would speak to the millions of little white children who died and were horribly maimed by having to work down the mines and risks their lives in the factories I wonder if they would consider themselves to be white and privileged. If they didn’t work in these environments the only other choice was death by starvation, not much of a choice really. Also all the impoverished children who were rounded up by Barnardos with the promise of a better life when in reality they were shipped off to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa and used as what amounted to slave labour on the farms often sleeping in cold barns and given the minimum amount of food.
@@marilynmills2273 absolutely on the money my ancestors aswell as many peoples had a pretty miserable life my grandmother god rest her soul worked in a cotton mill at the age of 13 and would often have no shoes to wear still worked up to being 80 died 😢penniless my parents paid for the funeral which they could ill afford not much privilege there
@@me-cu7ds Child chimney sweeps were guilty of blackface, though. Tsk!
That would make for a very revealing but harrowing video.
Absolutely spot on Simon thank you for this mornings video
I've never felt guilty of being a white Englishman to be honest.
At the same time as the anti-slavery movement in Britain was gathering momentum in the early 19th century, hundreds of thousands Britons were herded into "dark, Satanic mills". Nor slavery but wage slavery. It was often endured with great suffering and met with the indifference of owners who cared little for workers whom they did not own. Curiously, we take pride in this; it's part of our story.
And until the early 20th century going into 'Service' was a form of slavery in my opinion!
Black slavery won't become forgotten until it's no longer politically helpful.
I can't see that being the case until the country is long gone.
Simon you are a national treasure long may you continue with your truth and common sense 👏we desperately need people like you to counter this culture we have destroying a great country and people
Slavery in antiquity was common knowledge to people in the 1960s. The film 'Carry On Cleo' - 1964 parodies the Roman subjugation of Britain. One story line concerns eccentric inventor Hengist Pod who is developing the square wheel to stop carts rolling downhill but is captured & sold into slavery. The Brits can laugh & make fun of themselves despite the grim reality.
Hallo again. I've come to love that. I hope you're able to keep telling truth in this strange time of lies. I think you're a good man, Simon, and a necessary voice these days for people who are struggling through this. Thank you.
The last public slave marked in Europe closed in Istanbul in 1908. The slaves sold on the marked where primarily from Balkan and Caucasus.
Listen to the USA Marines anthem - It has lines about Africa. That's because the US marines were set up to combat piracy as Morrocan slave traders had taken "white gold" from some of the original colonial. settlements in Virginia.
Yes, 'the shores of Tripoli'.
The Barbary pirates of what became Tunisia.
It's funny how the US military is often doing maneuvers with this "Moroccan pirates", threatening a fellow NATO member near the Canary Islands and its sovereign Atlantic waters, while blackmailing with "refugees", charging Spain with €30 million on "aids" to such tyrannic regime.
@Rob Roavers
The Ottoman empire lasted for centuries.
The slaving ships might've headed for the Tripoli markets with their human cargo, but the power & control was in Istanbul.
Thumbnail information: Tale of Pope Gregory and Anglii children.
It’s interesting that so many slaves were taken from the British Isles by Viking raiders and taken to Iceland, that the DNA of Modern Icelanders still contain significant percentage of British DNA.
Some modern myths are falling this month! Keep it up.
I always laugh my ass off when they say only black people had ancestors who were slaves. While tribes like the Olmecs, Zapotecs, Mayans, Mixtecs, Incas, Romans, Mexica, Vikings had slaves. And Iraq abolished slavery in 1924 .
So it wouldn't be surprising if someone found out they had a slave ancestor in one of those regions
Great great great grandpa Georgey Porgey worked from the age of 4 years old in a foundry polishing clout nails for Disraeli's top hat, and was paid in a bowl of porridge daily, and his own filthy bed rag under the steam powered button fastener. Working 22 hours a day was his proud contribution to the Industrial revolution. Slaves? Never!
There was a brilliant episode of Who Do You Think You Are featuring Ainsley Harriot where he travelled to the Caribbean expecting to find out that he was descended from slaves. It turned out that his ancestor was, in fact, a slave owner. It certainly wiped the smile off his face
😂
Meanwhile, my ancestors worked in mines, in mills and factories, in workhouses, in domestic service and/or fought/died in various wars for our country!
Absolutely. So relevant.
They didn't fight for their country, they fought and died for the owners of the country
There was even a Carry on film that showed UK slavery, set during the Roman invasion period. Not been on for quite a while though. It is known, just not talked about anymore.
Hengist Pod
@@tomhayes4782 Kenneth Conner . Very funny
Carry On Cleo... "Infamy, infamy.. they've all got it infamy" .
@@lookandlisten5740 😂 the carry on films were excellent .
They didn't get much done having square wheels tho.
Bang good and very timely.
The sort of thing needed to diffuse all the inciting and agitating BS we are currently bombarded with.
Brilliant and brave. Thank goodness for this insight to set against the barrage of woke propaganda that we all have to endure.
I,m 71 and just look at the coal mining industry in the UK when children and women worked underground in the Pits in the not too distant past.
I should imagine ALL of us have ancestors who were slaves.
As a matter of interest, the Anglo-Saxons kept slaves, and not just foreigners (Simon mentions this). It is little known, but William I insisted on freeing them all, as he considered slavery barbaric.
How interesting! Have just checked and found that you are right.
@@williamtell6750 yes, one tends to curse William the Bastard and the Normans in our Englelond, but he had his good points, too.
Yes, he preferred his peasants to be bound to lifelong serfdom, rather than slavery which could be for fixed terms in many cases. Also, by making it a fineable offence, he could make even more money from the situation. He was not a nice man.
@@adventussaxonum448 I never suggested that he was. Let us not forget the cruelty of his Forestry Laws, either: as the AS Chronicler says, “For he loved the tall deer as if he were their father”.
Except when hunting & eating them, presumably.
Great stuff again. Informative history lesson.
No one should be held responsible for actions of people that we had nothing to do with. It's time for these people to move on. It's starting to get really tiring and old.
I would imagine that everyone had some ancestors that were slaves. There's a lot of it about.
Great summary at the end. Although we are told that black people today can 'suffer trauma from slavery which is passed down though ones genes'. I wonder if that trauma only lasts 200/300 years or can go as far back as 500/1000 years lol
I believe there is a cure for this genetic trauma suffered by a particular ethnic group. This cure has been suggested by themselves but is reliant on the indigenous people of our country to provide. Any guesses? This miraculous cure is none other than a thing called reparations, or hard cash to give it the proper name.
Cash apparently will remove all traces of this historic trauma. Some might say it is our duty to provide this panacea and provide instant relief to those suffering souls, others may not quite agree.
I thought 'gene trauma' referred to the consequences of wearing too tight Levis.
No other races that have been enslaved have this genetic trauma . We British who had ancestors enslaved don't suffer from this.
@Rob Roavers but we know the answers are rubbish
Yeah, and that comes from a distorted and oversimplified understanding of epigenetics, which also just so happens to be convenient for those pushing white guilt.
Was that picture St Gregory seeing the ANGELS!
Correct!
Excellent Simon !! keep up the good work. As I consistently say to my work colleagues, I seek the truth and a balanced perspective in all issues. Not much to ask is it ?
As a white man i feel no guilt at all. My ancestors may well have also been slaves but i will lose no sleep over it.
You need to release a book about this Simon. They'll deplatform you soon enough no doubt. Get as much into print as you possibly can!
My Great Grandparents sold fruit and veg.
I don't know my own ancestry beyond that point, so I find it strange how someone who doesn't know me could know.
That's a good point. The dropping off point is @ 1850. Some can go back to 1800 . Before then - what ? Myths.
Obviously it's easy. .
By the Melanin in your skin. 🤔 😆😂
Mine sold fish.
@Simon Foxwell and what percentage of the population at that time sold or had slaves?
The area I grew up in has until recently been almost entirely white. This would suggest little involvent in slavery if any in the area.
But hey I must be held accountable for so.ething that possibly someone else's ancestors were involved in at a time when it was the norm, at had been for thousands of years.
@Simon Foxwell
=> Old Scary World - YT
There was slavery for many centuries before the 'English' became the 'English'.
The two islands occupied by the British (Ibernix Britannica Insula and Albion Insula Britannica) have long histories of slavery.
St. Patrick was indeed taken as a slave...by the British who lived on British isle of Hibernia.
The (almost) entire population of Baltimore in County Cork here in Ireland was taken by Barbary slave raiders to North Africa and sold in 1631. We took slaves from other parts of Ireland and Britain and the various peoples of Britain did the same to us. I remember reading that virtually the entire female population of Iceland is descended from Irish and Scots women stolen in slave raids by that country's early settlers. I doubt there is a single person alive in this world who doesn't have slaves in his ancestry. The difference is that it was largely European civilisation that has largely ended the practice worldwide
Western nations would be awesome places to live in if the Slave trade had never happened, and if all black folk were still in Africa. Prove me wrong.
Can't
👍 When You're Right, You're Right 😎
To accept “all” history in the way you suggest, would result in the guilt driven money tap being turned off….. the victims cloak of immunity removed from the downtrodden minorities…. They won’t like that 🥺
Any white people who have a guilt complex about " slavery " need educating and need to have a serious word with themselves.
Plenty of domestic slaves still today in London owned by Islamic wealthy. Money and religion appears to offer protection from any serious interest by authorities.
You are the uncle I've never had Simon
That's a very nice thing to hear!
What a lovely compliment! Many of us enjoy "Uncle Simon", I certainly do although I'm (almost) as old as him😀 It's probably cos I'm nowhere as smart!
@@HistoryDebunkedsimonwebb I trust you'll be covering the black slave owners in the USA, Uncle Simon!
(If you haven't done so already, of course...)
Article: Top 10 Black Slaveowners, online.
e.g.
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Well researched Simon , and as you say it’s all there in our history . Should people choose to look , and of course their lies the problem . Most of us are not research experts, and rely on the work of others to furnish the relevant information. So obviously if that person wishes to push their own agenda , with inaccurate statements and untruths they can and present it as fact .
And as we all know a certain individual who’s name regularly crops up on this channel , has made a successful career out of such activity . I still maintain the real fault lies with the media , and in the case of the written word the publishing houses . They are the ones who should be doing their research . With out them these miscreants would not have a voice .
Good points Simon. Even when Britain was a slave trading nation, it was only carried on by a rich elite. Ordinary people weren't much better off than slaves themselves. They certainly didn't have any slaves personally, and probably never saw a black person, as there were hardly any in this country.
Indeed. I never saw a black person until 1970's.
Yet if you watch Bridgerton, apparently the Queen was black...
Another day, another delivery of pure fact.
My father, hand on heart, was a slave for five years. He was in a German POW camp in Poland - as a slave labourer, in atrocious conditions, allowed an army blanket OR a 🇬🇧 great coat for winter wear, and when he returned to Blighty he weighed in at six stone. After the war, he resisted the temptation to go and bang on about reparations outside the German embassy.
Only 2 percent of people in Africa are vaccinated. Why dont they need it over there? Do they have some sort of special immunity? Why do I need it so bad, but they dont?
Wealthy countries use the vaccines for their own people. They will get theirs eventually.
simple answer. nobody should take the injections. it's not a vaccine. it's not effective or safe. end of story.
@@guyanaspice6730 bollocks.
The vaccine is extremely suspicious to me, its all linked in to the big plan...
@@EldergodUK oogity boogity. Better put our tin foil hats on.
Is any of the grievance rhetoric genuine?
Marxism gave up describing their Utopia as realistic when the workers became happier with the free market.
Now, instead of describing Utopia positively, Marxism describes it by what you don't have and why you don't have it.
Hence the new class of victims and identity politics.
Its a grift.
With complexity and fantasy and ideology mixed into a mud of confusion where the weak and lazy and cunning whinge and whine.
There is no such thing as Utopia, and if it was achieved, we would all get very bored with it, very quickly.
Something related to this is mentioned in one of Mr. Webb's videos about the song Rule Britannia. This video brings that song even further into perspective. Thank you, Mr. Webb.
My ancestors only ever had white slaves when the where Cornish pirates. They had never even seen a black person till my great great grand father in ww1 in France. My great grand father told me about it; saying the fella by second mouth didn't much like the attention of being stared at. Wouldn't you stare if you'd never seen it?
Guess Rule Britannia lyrics will have to be changed to Black's will never be slaves.
Don't give them bloody ideas.
@@angryofmayfair7091 😕
Keep up the good work
You are certainly right to point out the universality of slavery in all human societies for thousand of years, until European states, notably the UK, decided it was intolerable and spent significant effort in eradicating the trade in the nineteenth century, often to the great displeasure of potential sellers in Africa and buyers in the Americas..
However to say that "white people's ancestors are just as likely to include slaves as any black person's" is overstated: probably true if the black person in question is African, but certainly not if they are Afro-Caribbean. The slave ancestors of Afro-Caribbeans being much closer to us in time than the slave ancestors of Europeans, can often even be traced back and identified by name, which is hardly possible for Europeans' slave ancestors a thousand years ago or more.
This was a very tidy video, reminded me of what I call the first 6 😏
Everyone knows that slavery is as old as humanity itself, no mystery there.
I have ancestors who were covenanters and were enslaved and sent to the colonies.
In America "Slavery was bad, but Pimpin is acceptable".
Fear and guilt are used to control people, it's nothing to do with what actually happened in the past.
Thank you.
If you're black and from the Caribbean, some of you're ancestors are far more likely to have been slave owners than mine. I recall Moira Stewart, when taking part in the TV show, Who Do You Think You Are? looking stunned when she discovered her family roots. A number of them were wealthy, white slave traders.
Will this change the attitude of disgust celebrities feel when told about their ancestors involvement in the slave trade on tvs who do you think you are?
This is so true. Irish children were stolen and chained up on those ships.
I get tired of pointing out to angry Afro-American people, they weren't the first, nor only ones.
And to angry Native Americans, if my people invaded and took their lands for riches, my Ancestors and my family would not live in the UK
What Simon said at minute 6:56 onwards is particularly important for all those professional victims to consider.
On a side note, nobody respects a supposed victim. We may feel pity for them but certainly not respect.
Let's not forget the group of people from Eastern Europe actually known as Slavs. The slave trade funneled hundreds of thousands of Europeans through the Turkic and Arabic slave markets for centuries. The Crimean Tatars and Ottoman Turks where still carrying out slave raids far into Europe as late as the 19th century.
I particularly like your final remarks, Simon. Let’s all ease off on identifying too closely with the rights and wrongs of the past, and start first of all with our shared here and now.......simples !
"They were white and they were slaves" great book. Free pdf available on the request of a internet search.
The British Empire was the first to abolish slavery, in the Slavery Abolition Act (1833), enacted the following year.
The slave trade ceased to be profitable.
Plantations ceased to be profitable.
The slave trade was overtaken by a more profitable use of ships.
Wage labour became more profitable than slave labour.
It was replaced by colonialism which was more profitable.
@@oldboygeorge7688 If what you suggest is true, why would the British commit the huge amount of compensation to the slave owners,surely the market would ensure the transition of slavery to paid labour.
Why did the British commit the Navy to enforce their moral decision?
Where in the world was slavery being replaced by paid labour at this time to prove your statement,why did the rest of the countries that used slave labour not come to the same decision?
Your bigoted mind is unable to even give any acknowledgment of credit to the British for being the only
country in the world to abolish slavery at this time you are brainwashed and incapable of objectivity.
@@oldboygeorge7688 Partly true, though I don't think it's just about profit. Given slave labour is free it's hard to imagine how wage labour would be more profitable. Also I don't think money played a role in other acts of legislation passed at this time, where there was a growing sense of morality about the justness of practices such as slavery, which was abhorrent to a growing civilisation. If you look at the literature of the time, this was a product of social conscience. The Factory Act was passed in 1833 to protect children working in factories, and the 1834 Poor Law Act was passed the following year to prevent the poor being exploited and give workers some rights. By no means perfect, but this was the direction that society was heading in which has taken us to where we are today.
@@georgehetty7857 Well Said
@@oldboygeorge7688 How can wage labour be more profitable than slave labour? Your comment makes no sense!
Go to South London and you'll think you're in Nigeria
How can something like that happen without popular popular support
I bet it stinks.
Look at TV adverts and you'll think you are in London.
@Mr White I agree but I would swap Russia for China.
@@slavicjarl8769 Exactly. And some of the Beautiful Russian Girls I've seen could Win Miss Universe easily Hands Down! As Always it goes back to Jealousy and Class Resentment by the Worlds Trouble Makers. Every. Single. Time
Good point. You should start a CZcams Channel called History Debunked or whereabouts... erm...
might be worth doing a vid on Botswana?
The country, the world even is grateful to you for doing the research that others clearly don’t or if they do, ignore
Well done again Simon , a great video which tells the truth
Re British serfs. "Unlike slaves, serfs could not be bought, sold, or traded individually though they could, depending on the area, be sold together with land."
The last country to banish serfs was Russia Lennin done that and made everyone enslaved to communism
In Renaissance Florence, at least 94% of the population were effectively slaves, in that they were not free to leave the respective households they served.
Just in Florence?
Excellent! I’ve listened to many hours of Thomas Sowell discussing the history of slavery, and one fundamental point I often think about is the origin of the word “slave” itself. It is, in fact, related to Slav, as in the Slavic people, who were enslaved by North Africans by the millions.
Alive and well in UK too. Thanks to the wonders of uncontrolled immigration and multi culti utopia
What a concept...historical truth. Which is being systematically extinguished.
Keep the truth coming Simon...
It's allright to be white, black or Asian. We are equals not special treatment. Great video Simon the truth channel. ;)
Unfortunately, the truth is that we are patently NOT equal
*_Tell that to the BAME community ..._*
Agreed, unfortunately The non whites don't agree.
You said it. I remember watching a PBS series featuring Professor Henry Louis Gates of Harvard, and his tour of Africa. At one point he is talking to an African woman, perhaps a Sudanese, and he says to her: “My great grandfather was a SLAVE.” He was expecting her to look shocked, I suppose. Imagine, just imagine! The great grandfather of a Harvard professor was a SLAVE! She was nonplussed, and looked at him as if to say: “Your great grandfather probably had it better than mine.” Gates was so obsessed with his slave ancestry.
We are enthralled by the specialness of Black slavery.
“Thrall”: Old English (old Norse) word meaning slave.
I have always had difficulty in distinguishing "serfs" from "slaves". I recall from the opening of Ivanhoe, a serf wears a necklace with the name of his owner.
One only has to have a gander at Carry On Cleo, to see that in the early 60s we knew of such things then.
BBC, how about a 3 part documentary on this.....
Not to forget that the Barbary slave trade resulted in many coastal parts of southern England, Ireland and Wales, being depopulated due to the raids on fishing and other coastal villages.
It's sad that our young are not more enlightened on the reality of the history we all (mankind) have suffered through...
All those young boys and men taken by the ottomans as child slaves from Eastern Europe as tribute to be janissary soldiers for the sultan. 400 years.
Some of them use the excuse of the empires no longer existing so there's no one to blame.