There are statues in the city centre of famous men from Birmingham................Watt, McGregor & Boulton - the first 2 are ****ing Scottish
I'm sure quite a few Irish individuals have done all sorts of horrible things - I was not trying to have a dig though, I was pointing out an obvious flaw in that abolitionist argument.
Think he is from Solihull which is not technically not part of Birmingham There's UB40, Pato banton...........Enoch Powell
Not quite. The history of Monserrat where the Irish were kept as slaves but also as slave owners...of course it was the 'bad Irish' who were the slave owners and the good guys who were kept as slaves....But I would say that wouldn't I.
The British were the main culprits in the creation of slavery? Bit tricky that, seeing as slavery predates Britain, England and other minor things, like writing...
I was referring to the Americas from Africa slave trade, which someone was crediting the British for abolishing. Again I'm not deliberately trying to have a dig, I'm just saying it's hard to take credit for abolishing a slave route you were instrumental in creating.
The British created slavery?! So we went back in time and gave the Egyptians and Chinese the idea? Slavery has been around since the beginning of civilisation, you can't pin that one on us We were the first to abolish it though.
The British awarded Roger Casement a knighthood for his anti-Slavery work and investigation into human rights abuses in the Belgian colonies....Then they killed him when he thought it was a good idea that people were free. Odd.
