While the British committed a great many historical sins in the course of their Empire, including benefitting, for hundreds of years, from the slave trade, the turn towards abolitionism and suppression of the slave trade in the 19th century is a legitimate good that occurred. Fuck the British Empire’s colonialism as a whole, but at least a few of these British lads sailing to free folk from the slave trade occurring between Africa and Arabia are legitimately men worth honoring. Chattel slavery - whether imposed by native or foreign elites - is a fucking evil that deserved suppression.
While the British committed a great many historical sins in the course of their Empire, including benefitting, for hundreds of years, from the slave trade, the turn towards abolitionism and suppression of the slave trade in the 19th century is a legitimate good that occurred. Fuck the British Empire’s colonialism as a whole, but at least a few of these British lads sailing to free folk from the slave trade occurring between Africa and Arabia are legitimately men worth honoring. Chattel slavery - whether imposed by native or foreign elites - is a fucking evil that deserved suppression.