“Indeed we did, being the first country to abolish an institution practised by everyone, including the US until they finally got round to it.”
Yeah, that would be a great point, except, like just about everything you say, it just isn’t true, as the information I’ve given including, quoted material, and links, amply demonstrates.
More from the Guardian article…
‘By the early 1920s Britain was under increasing pressure from the League of Nations temporary slavery commission. In 1924 Britain was forced to admit that slavery was still practised in Sierra Leone, northern Nigeria, Gambia, Aden, Burma and Hong Kong.’
‘Sierra Leone was founded for freed slaves (some in the American revolution had been promised land and freedom if they fought for Britain, but the land turned out to be in Africa). Captain WB Stanley, commissioner of the Northern Province, reported in 1924 that there were 219,275 slaves in Sierra Leone, 15% of the total population. Governor Sir Ransford Slater wrote that year: “My first impression [on arrival] was one of surprise that in Sierra Leone, of all colonies, having regard to the history of its first settlers, there should still exist, even in the hinterland, an admitted form of slavery.”‘
‘Britain in 1926 signed the League of Nations slavery convention. But it was quickly in trouble with the League, following a ruling by Sierra Leone’s supreme court on July 1 1927, which declared that the status of slavery “is clearly recognised” and thus “the use of reasonable force [by the slave's owner] in retaking of a runaway slave must also be recognised”. Court president Mr Justice Sawrey-Cookson added: “It must be as absurd to deny an owner of a slave his rights to retake a runaway slave as to deny a husband certain rights which follow on a lawfully contracted marriage.”‘
You weren’t the first nation to abolish slavery. Far from it. In Africa your colonial governmental institutions were ignoring, and even PROTECTING slavery well into the 20th century, as well as enacting and maintaining racially segregationist policies in places like Rhodesia, and South Africa into the 1960s.
You’ve made misstatement after misstatement regarding slavery, the abolition of slavery, segregationist policies in the British empire, the slave trade, etc. You can’t back up anything you say, which isn’t surprising, since what you say is rarely factually accurate. All you do is keep repeating the same inane gibberish, even after you’ve been shot down over and over again.
IOW, you’re a typical, clueless America-basher.
And, you really should just shut the hell up.
