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Everyone knows Britain was part of the slave trade. 🇬🇧 What you don't hear enough is who ended it. Slavery didn't start with Britain. It started over five thousand years ago. Africa's own slave trade ran for over a thousand years, before a single European ship arrived. The Arab world traded slaves for over thirteen centuries. Every empire in history was built on it. Nobody had ever ended it. Britain did. A law was passed. A date was set. August the first. Eighteen thirty-four. Eight hundred thousand people would be free. And when midnight came... They were all free. The largest act of emancipation in human history. A five-thousand-year-old system. Ended. Because the British people said so. Be part of us: 👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧