So African countries didn’t sell slaves?
And it’s blatantly obvious what I’m talking about with regards to hunger.
When we examine this whole debate we should also not ignore what some might consider uncomfortable details.
Arabs from the Kingdom of Persia controlled the slave market in East Africa long before the British and Portuguese involvement. One of the key reasons in the debate
circa 1833 to end slavery was economic ... the crafty Brits didn't need a costly occupation, when all they (being globally and politically dominant) had to do was manufacture external forces to destroy them instead. That was
another reason for abolishing slavery at the time apart from the humanitarian cause.
Mauritania fell in line with this way of thinking in 2016!
The Persian together with the Brits/Belgians/Germans/French/Portuguese etc readily engaged Africans to go off and bring back local inhabitants in chains as well as African merchants and those profiting from coastal slave markets
Africa currently has the largest total of people in bondage today (around 9 million, which is shocking)
I could go on ...
Haile Salassie came to London fleeing the Italian occupation of Ethiopia. He was still in London during the War as were his 2 black African 'servants'. I'm not sure the word slaves is appropriate here, although possibly not totally inaccurate for these people living under the conditions of 'servitude'.
Great init!?
And while some of those pushing an anti-racist agenda may be uncomfortable about their Emperor's lifestyle in the 1940's, it shouldn't be wielded out as a counter-argument. Sorry but
they did it first, or
they do it as well. or even
they are doing it now in huge numbers - not only is this, at best an illogical distraction or conversely an affirmation that it was therefore OK and look at them they're still doing it in a twisted act of racist conflation.
Lets end racism is logically extended to lets end all forms of work exploitation simply because the core arguments are the same (albeit some are distinct).
I do trust you you can support an end to all forms of bondage through labour and we might have a chance to free many people of all manner of colours and creeds in this country too
) I used to clamber all over it in sunny days out in the good old days when Health and Safety and the Nanny State never existed. In folklore that ****ing worm with his big long tail sat around Penshaw Monument -and where else would that huge skinny worm be!? ...dominating the landscape and even though my historical dates were a tad confused at the time, this Romanesque folly still does just that, it dominates the local landscape with or without a dragon to enhance it.
