๐ฌ๐ง THEY TOLD YOU A STORY. ๐ฌ๐ง
Colonisers. Slavers. Oppressors. And you were supposed to feel ashamed.
Not for what you done... But for WHO YOU ARE. ๐ฌ๐ง
So we tested it. Britain wrote everything down, so we opened the books. ๐
Turns out fewer than 1 man in 10 could vote in the year Britain banned the slave trade. No woman could. Your ancestors could hang for stealing a sheep, get shipped across the world for petty theft, or go down a mine at 8 years old. In Manchester, the average age of death in a labouring family was 17.
They weren't running the slave trade. They were underneath it too.
Which is what makes what happened next worth knowing.
In 1772 an enslaved man named James Somerset walked free from an English court, because English law couldn't hold a slave.
In 1791, 300,000 families just stopped buying slave sugar. No march, no riot, just a decision made at 300,000 kitchen tables.
In 1792, 519 petitions carrying 390,000 names hit Parliament, most signed by people who couldn't vote themselves.
In 1807, Britain banned the trade.
Then the slave owners sent Britain a bill for the 800,000 people they still held. ๐ท ยฃ20 million. About 40% of the entire government budget at the time.
The Treasury says it wasn't paid off until 2015. So if your family paid British tax before then, they helped buy 800,000 people their freedom.
From 1808 the Royal Navy spent 60 years hunting slave ships at sea: 1,600 stopped, 150,000 people freed, and 1,600 British sailors dead, mostly of disease, buried thousands of miles from home. โ
In 1816 they ended two centuries of Barbary corsairs enslaving Europeans.
In 1896 a war that lasted 38 minutes ended slavery in Zanzibar. ๐น๐ฟ
Almost every country on Earth outlaws slavery today.
That fight was paid for largely at British expense, by British hands.๐ฌ๐ง
So why haven't you heard any of this?
Because within living memory, someone rewrote the story. You got taught the crime. Not the cure.
The powerful exploited the world. They exploited their own people first. It was those people who ended slavery. ๐ฌ๐ง
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History got rewritten once, in living memory, by no one who was ever named or held to account.
We are ordinary people doing what ordinary people have always done. Opening the books. Refusing to look away.
This is how we fight back. Fact by fact. Story by story. Name by name.
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They beat a 16 year old boy half blind and threw him in the street to die.
The man who stopped for him wasn't a lawyer, a lord or a hero. He was a government clerk. And he ended up cracking slavery wide open. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐ฌ๐ง
The boy was Jonathan Strong. The clerk was Granville Sharp. In 1765 Sharp and his surgeon brother nursed the boy back from the edge.
Two years on, the man who owned Strong saw him well again and sold him to a Jamaica planter for 30 pounds. The law was meant to be on the owner's side. The whole slave trade leaned on one legal opinion, that a slave was property, in England as anywhere.
Sharp had no answer. So he taught himself the law of England, book by book, night after night, until he found the crack. That opinion had never been a ruling. No court had ever decided it. It was a guess, written over dinner. A bluff.
So he called it. Strong walked free. The owner challenged Sharp to a duel, and Sharp told him to try it in court instead.
And the argument this clerk built in his spare room stood, 7 years later, behind the ruling that slavery was too odious for English soil.
Strong never saw it. He died in 1773. But the clerk who would not walk past him had started everything.
You were taught Parliament freed the slaves. You were never taught the clerk who really started it. That is the Britain worth being proud of, and the history we dig out, the Britons the textbooks left out.
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The Windrush myth is simply the leading edge of a bigger ideological project to insist that diversity built Britain, argues Colin
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@AdnanHussainMP Well said, but remember the starting point. There is a very specific modus operandi. We MUST also be able to question why that modus operandi is so prevalent in Muslim men.
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@AndrewHWestern No Andrew, unfortunately everyone is sick of it. That word is thrown indiscriminately at anyone who raises their head even near the parapet of illegal migration and DEI initiatives.
When gangster Chris Kaba was shot by a police marksman, Neil Basu called it a "watershed moment" & announced the "black community don't trust policing at all".
But when Henry Nowak bleeds to death in police handcuffs, we mustn't talk about it because it's "divisive".
Hypocrite.