I grew up in Kenya in the 60's, and I was indeed taught the history of Britain's Crusade against the slave trade. Kenyan history was deeply affected by the Arab slave trade - as a child I never understood why Swahili had so many Arabic words! Fort Jesus in Mombasa was built by the Portuguese and was fought over and lost and taken numerous times by the Portuguese and Omani Arabs. Returning to the UK in my 20's I was surprised to find that history I had learned seemed to be no longer taught. The history is there, well recorded in achieves and libraries.. but no longer seems to fit the current political narrative. The Atlantic slave trade was an evil that is hard to shake, but it was normal for its day. But the fact that Britain decided at great cost, in blood and treasure to unilaterally end it is indeed something to be proud of.

"The air of England is too pure for any slave to breathe"  Love that line.

The only “colour” slavery had was “GOLD” 💰 I am so sick of people “cherry picking” pieces of history to shame us! I am SO proud of how my country fought to end slavery. 🇬🇧THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEO❗️❤️

the people who were freed from slavery joined the british navy and BRITISH and AFRICAN men were fighting together against the slavery trade...and to me that fantastic...and I really believe that the people in the UK would do it all
again if needed to...

The best thing about Britain ending slavery is it was the British people in Britain, slavery was never actually allowed IN Britain, half of the people that forced the government to end slavery had never even seen a black person, they just knew it wasn’t right.

Apparently £250,000 in 1750 would be worth £44,.71 million today. The people making this money were portrayed as the good guys in the woman king hence the backlash that movie got. Apparently, we Brits only finished paying off the national debt we incurred for paying slave owners across the empire to set their people free in 2016. If you've worked or bought anything in the UK before this date you've already paid reparations.

the British government had to pay British merchants to free their slaves in the Americas, the British taxpayer was still paying off this debt until 2015

When Britain abolished it's slave trade about half a dozen African kingdoms complained! King Gezo of the Dahomey was on record saying he'd do anything the British asked but give up slavery.
Britain signed about 50 anti slaving treatise with West African kingdoms and any that refused to stop got bombarded into stopping. The slave port of Lagos, Nigeria was one such location bombarded to stop slaving in 1851. Lagos renamed it's independence square after a local slave trader. You can see a statue of her there today.
When the transatlantic slave trade had largely stopped, they diverted ships to East Africa to stop the Arab slave trade. They stopped patrolling East Africa in the 1970's.
Look up the photos from the HMS Sphinx that captured Arab slavers in Oman and the sailors breaking off the chains of the African slaves in 1907?

As an Englishman it pains me that today children are being taught that we are inherently racist, when our soldiers and sailors gave their lives to stamp out slavery.
Thank you for your open mind and reaction video. I wish more people were open to facts.
Remember: Know your history or be doomed to repeat it.

The British people only stopped paying the debt of in 2015 through our taxes

He is saying that if you look at slavery only and solely through the eyes of the American experience you get a distorted view of history and reality. And I am here to say that the American cultural view is pretty cloying and totalitarian at this point

My great-great-grandfather served on the HMS Falcon in the West Africa Squadron in 1865 and I'm sure he endured/saw things that were horrific.  It was an honourable endeavour by Britain given it had no financial benefit (quite the opposite).  That does not excuse Britain's role in the slave trade outside of the UK prior to this effort (which started in 1805).  But no one else was doing anything about it seriously at that time.

Being a Brit with my ethnicity coming from one of the ex colonies, I get really frustrated when I hear folks from other parts of the old empire looking for reparations. History is fact and cannot be rewritten which seems to be the way of things now. Slaves have been around since the beginning of time. The UK like any nation will have some things that fall below the standards of today but there are so many great things that we're responsible for. We fought the Nazis, we created the magna carta and we clearly ended the Atlantic slave trade.

One of my ancestors was on the east coast of Africa on anti slavery patrolling and he caught a tropical disease lucky to live but his health never fully recovered and he was invalided out of the navy. He lived poor and sick the rest of his life but he was proud of his duty. As a family we have always been told his and many other of our ancestors have done for humanity i am extremely proud of them all

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our mind."
Bob Marley.

The world is so much more complicated than we are often lead to believe.

I live in a small town in the North West of England, and there's an old monument here to a slave called Sambo, who was boarded by his master in a public house near the port in the early 1700s. The story is really sad, and they think that he thought he had been abandonned, because his master was all he knew and he didn't speak any European languages, as sad as it sounds. He died soon afterwards, although people point to different causes. Local sailors buried him in a grave on the coastline without much ceremony. About 60 years later, at the end of the 1700s, a local school master heard the sad story, and raised money to have proper monument put there. It's still there today, and still cared for by locals and their children. It's often covered in flowers and hand-painted stones.

I think one of the key things to avoiding the repeating of history is to make sure we take an honest and unflinching look at all aspects of it, good, bad or ugly. The story of Sambos grave always makes me feel sad and happy in equal measure. I feel sad for the poor cabin lad who died in a strange land, far from his family or loved ones, and I feel sad about the people who just dumped him out into a grave on a bleak and wild coastline. But when I think about the people then and now that were determined that he not be forgotten, it lifts me a little and reminds me how we make positive change. #goodhumans

We need to start realizing that slavery, like so much of the tragic parts of history, was not about race or religion but about money and power.  We need to stop filtering the truth and start accepting it as our history.  There are people (mostly girls)  being sold into slavery just as bad, if not worse than the slavery of our past.  Wouldn't it be a blessing if we could focus on saving them instead.

I respect anyone who tries to earnestly learn  British history. Much respect to you man.

The Arab Slave traders castrating men was why the unsullied were in Game of thrones. It was a nod to historical fact.