In 1907, a British sailor is seen unshackling an enslaved man who had been chained for three years.
The photo was taken by Joseph Chidwick, a crew member of the HMS Sphinx.
The man in the photos had managed to escape a slave-trading outpost off Oman's coast upon learning of the Royal Navy's presence nearby.
In 2007, this image was gifted to the Royal Navy Museum by Samuel, Joseph Chidwick's son, who shared the following remarks:
"The pictures were taken by my father who was serving aboard HMS Sphinx while on armed patrol off the Zanzibar and Mozambique coast in about 1907. They caught quite a few slavers and those particular slaves that are in the pictures happened while he was on watch. That night a dhow (sailing vessel) sailed by and the slaves were all chained together. He raised the alarm and they got them on to the ship and got the chains knocked off them. They then questioned them and sent a party of marines ashore to try to track the slave traders down. They caught two of them and I believe they were of Arabic origin. My father thought the slave trade was a despicable thing that was going on, the slaves were treated very badly so when they got the slavers they didn’t give them a very nice time”.
Hospedia runs TV services in NHS hospitals.
It charges £7.90 a DAY to watch normal TV, not a penny of this goes to the NHS.
Hospedia takes £150,000 a day from vulnerable patients, it shouldn’t be getting a penny.
Because it shouldn’t exist.
RT if we need to get this scum out.
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* Whenever they are on a shift
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'We are slowly killing every single river in the country.'
Feargal Sharkey backs 'super' fines for profiting water companies.
The Prime Minister has denied the government is moving away from £250 million fines for water companies.
Why is there such a vast difference in average energy costs?
€650 - France
€650 - Belgium
€620 - Spain
€558 - Germany
€558 - Denmark
€546 - Holland
€545 - Austria
€543 - Norway
€476 - Finland
€174 - Poland
€2,960 - UK
In 14 years as a doctor I’ve never known such horrific conditions. Patients dying on trolleys with zero dignity. Or screaming & moaning in corridors. Dickensian overcrowding, total implosion. Despair. Weeping staff. Abject misery.
Do you care at all @Jeremy_Hunt? @SteveBarclay?