Why don't we learn about the Europeans involved in the Atlantic slave trades gains in school?
Portugal, Britain, Spain, France, Netherlands & Denmark
Britain alone for an example.
Provincial banking to fund the slave trade:
To create credit needed for long distance Atlantic slave trade
Barclay’s bank- 4th largest bank in the world
Lloyd’s bank- 35th largest bank in the world
Slave sales:
1580 – 1808
3.3 million in total sold creating £138 million = £18 billion today ALONE
This is just from the sale of slaves alone not including the sale of slave made products and investments of these profits.
Industrial Revolution:
Drive in production of manufactured goods; guns, ammunition to be sold to African merchants in return for captives. Also ship building.
James Watt’s invention of the first efficient steam engine which drove the Industrial Revolution came from investments of slave plantations in Virginia & Jamaica!
Slavery made goods, profits or investments in Britain include;
Rope, glass, lumber, ships, guns, ammunition, metals, textiles, roads, bridges, houses, canals, clothes, fishing nets, coffee filters, tents, cotton gunpowder, cotton paper, bookbinding, maritime undertakings, mining of salt, coal, lime etc.
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
This defines the modern world being born in Britain allowing them to gain the largest empire ever!
Also all the key elements which drove it was all heavily involved in slavery/slave trading eg manufacturing/factories. The cotton mill is regarded as the most important product during the Industrial Revolution and we know where that cotton was coming from. The constant need to find cheaper more efficient ways to produce goods the Africans wanted, to sail to them in ships and to expand their empires drove the revolution.
Industrial revolution was born out of Liverpool & Manchester in the UK.
These English cities were either built by or heavily involved in slave trading and production/investments from slave made good:
Liverpool, Manchester, London, Bristol, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham, Rockdale & Birmingham.
From these cities it included:
Industries/factories (ships, guns, ammunition, metals etc), slave ports, cotton processing, merchants (seamen & slave traders) & textile production (cotton)
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Perhaps your school does not want to deal with a subject like slavery which might prove detrimental to the school itself.
Slavery is not merely a history, it is happening right now here in the 21stC. There are an estimated 27,000,000 (twenty seven million) slaves world wide.
Slavery for the British started back in the 17thC – indeed, our very own Oliver Cromwell MP built two slave ships at Debtford here in SE London and made money from slavery.
I’m not going to make any excuses – slavery was and is vile and evil.
I’ll keep it as short as I can. Profits from the slave trade were used to finance the Industrial Revolution here in UK.
You must not hold to the view, as some may, that the Common People of UK have somehow benefited from slavery. Quite the opposite is the case.
I belong to a family of Quakers and Methodists – Abolitionists in fact. So, while I’m a lot older than you, I was taught a great deal about the slave trade as a child.
"There is only one race, the Human Race"
Slogans such as the one above were and are used to encourage people to unite against slavery. To stop seeing ourselves as different or worse, as superior. We all have a part to play in the life of our nation and together we can go forward and make life better for ourselves and others too.
Now meet Mister Fountain Hughes – sadly no longer with us, but we have his beautiful voice to tell us his story of how he was born a slave in America and how his grandfather was a slave too.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fountain+hughes&tbo=p&tbm=vid&source=vgc&hl=en&aq=f
Now hear a sermon preached by the Reverend John Wesley MA – in which he speaks of the equality of mankind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFqFtDgaI5E&feature=related
At this next link, you can read the very last letter written by John Wesley to his friend William Wilberforce MP.
http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/wesley/wilber.stm
Now meet the Methodists – a rousing hymn by Charles Wesley, brother of John Wesley.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQeIGbKqiw8
If you wish, you can sign the petition for the abolition of slavery.
anti-slavery petitionhttp://www.gopetition.com/petitions/anti-slavery-petition/sign.html#se
This wonderful hymn, Amazing Grace, was written by John Newton, a former slave ship captain who repented and came over to Jesus. This is the very same hymn which William Wilberforce used to sing when he wanted people to join his campaign for the abolition of slavery.
Soweto Gospel Choir
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoJz2SANTyo&feature=related
William Wilberforce MP
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/wilberforce_william.shtml
British Abolitionists
http://www.brycchancarey.com/abolition/
Remember, slavery is alive and evil in the world today. Together, we will put and end to it. Please sign the petition.
We are one people – all Adam’s Children.
"Cry Freedom" is a movie about the people of South Africa liberating themselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZnetAveDLM&feature=related
I want you to be inspired. We must all work together to make this a better world for all of the people.
Jesus Christ with you always.
Methodist Abolitionist
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&sugexp=kjrmc&cp=4&gs_id=l&xhr=t&q=nelson+mandela&safe=off&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1085&bih=721&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi
Edit: slavery has been illegal here in UK since the early middle ages.
I think you need to go back to your history books, little buddy. Black people were kidnapped from Africa (mostly West Africa) and transported against their will in ships either to America or to the West Indies. No slaves were ever transported to Britain or to any European country. No slave labour was ever used in Britain or Europe
There is an avoidance due to it being so lengthy and only ending here in the US a little over 150 years ago. Blacks here did not march out of slavery compensated but crawled out and whites within 50 years were able to repeal most of the gains. Also, although freed here, Blacks were still not given legal citizen status after the emancipation. So although the law, it was not enforced with the force needed to make it work. Many worked against reparations as they had made their wealth with the hundreds of years of free labor.
Am learning about it now in World history,but am American and can’t speak for the UK.
Im not going to read all that shyt
Good info.
I would like to know why no one ever talks about white slavery
Back in the 1960s we did learn about the Slave trade.
Which is why I know that your information is biased.
The Cotton and Wool trades along with Industrialisation were one of the reasons the Slave trade (balcks selling blacks for huge profits where are the rich Blacks now who made bigger profits than the Merchants selling them on ?) was abolished as it is uneconomical,along with being immoral.
Not that the immoral part ever stopped the Black Africans from continuing to make big profits by selling the slaves to other Countires after Britain had abolished it.
Remember when you say Black slave trade always remember it was Blacks who sold and promoted the trade and Whites in England who Abolished it against the wishes of the Black Africans, and we fought a couple of Wars over it and never had any recompense from Africa for stamping out the horrible trade.
Those English Cities would have been built anyway, it was Education and rule of Law which Built Britain, we just happened to be more efficient at exploiting what ‘ALL’ the World did until that point, and then spent £Millions for which Africa has never repaid Britain stamping out.
Do not even think you have a balanced argument until you strip out Black History in England and realise the world would not be much different had it not existed.
Ships, the Royal Navy gained more shipping from Spain, Netherlands and France than the whole that it built due to Prize money, nothing to do with money from slaving to build them, we couldn’t have afforded the Fleet that defeated the French at Trafalgar if we hadn’t captured lage sections of foreign fleets, and had Laws in place that meant the poorest naval rating got a share of the booty.
The need for Cotton and wool was driven by the Home market, and the inventions happened because the Laws were in place and available to the poorest and they could defend their patent rights.
James Watt invented the separate condensing boiler making the Steam Engine efficient to drain coal mines needed for iron and along with Mathew Boulton he patented the said machine, this is what drove the industrial revolution more than all the Cotton and Wool machinery inventions.
It is interesting to note that two centres of the Industrial Revolution are missing from your List, Glasgow and Leeds, also Birmingham did not benefit directly from slaving.
Jame Watt was a Scot Africa was an important outlet and note Slavery had died out in Europe it was only backward Africa and Black Africans with no writing that wanted to keep Slavery going.
They were corrupt then they are corrupt now which is the main reason Africa is so poor.
>No slave labour was ever used in Britain or Europe
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Ultra FAIL.