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How come no one talks about the fact that it was Britain, not America, not Canada, that ended slavery in West Africa...
They refer to the late Queen as the Queen of a genocidal empire but not the Queen of the Empire that ended slavery and gave education to many future freedom fighters in Africa..

But I guess it's human nature, slow to appreciate-quick to find faults.

If an armed robber having robbed and murdered people for 20 years despite knowing fully well that robbery and murder are wrong, decides to stop one day and starts telling other robbers to stop too,what will you do?
Will you forget the fact that he robbed and killed for years only to start praising him for helping to stop robbery?

Nawa o tey taught us so many history lessons in school…

One of the mistakes many Africans who have been wired not to think deeply make. Britain ended slavery not because of some benevolence or love they had for Africans. They ended slavery to stop the outflow of strong human resources from Africa to the Americas, because they needed those strong human resources on the continent to work in farms and other sectors that produced cheap raw materials to British companies/industries.

America ended slavery and colonialism.

Slavery have not ended.
Slavery,
Colonialism &
Neocolonialism. What's the difference?
None!
Some people are the oppressors
And others are the oppressed.

But one day the Lion will get a weary leg and the Gazel will look at him eye to eye ball, and request to collect the debt being owed.

HedwigesMaduro:
One of the mistakes many Africans who have been wired not to think deeply make. Britain ended slavery not because of some benevolence or love they had for Africans. They ended slavery to stop the outflow of strong human resources from Africa to the Americas, because they needed those strong human resources on the continent to work in farms and other sectors that produced cheap raw materials to British companies/industries.

And? Your point is ...?
Britain didn't end slavery?
They shouldn't have ended slavery?

michelz:
If an armed robber having robbed and murdered people for 20 years despite knowing fully well that robbery and murder are wrong, decides to stop one day and starts telling other robbers to stop too,what will you do?
Will you forget the fact that he robbed and killed for years only to start praising him for helping to stop robbery?

Most of the slaves were captured and sold by other Africans and their biggest buyers were the portuguese, arabs and americans, essentially the whole world participated in slavery and Britain Ended it.

danvon:
Most of the slaves were captured and sold by other Africans and their biggest buyers were the portuguese, arabs and americans, essentially the whole world participated in slavery and Britain Ended it.

Britain started slave trade. Stop covering up evil

danvon:
How come no one talks about the fact that it was Britain, not America, not Canada, that ended slavery in West Africa...
They refer to the late Queen as the Queen of a genocidal empire but not the Queen of the Empire that ended slavery and gave education to many future freedom fighters in Africa..

But I guess it's human nature, slow to appreciate-quick to find faults.

You are fool whom knows nothing about history

A citizen from American ended slavery


And if I should be correct he was the first president of America

He has his statue moulded

Go check fact and stop behaving like a dunce just because of tribalism


American ended slavery

ObosiUkwalla:
Britain started slave trade. Stop covering up evil

Leave that clown

Just overnight love for Britain for saving their one Nigeria

Wintertime:
Leave that clown

Just overnight love for Britain for saving their one Nigeria

danvon:
How come no one talks about the fact that it was Britain, not America, not Canada, that ended slavery in West Africa...
They refer to the late Queen as the Queen of a genocidal empire but not the Queen of the Empire that ended slavery and gave education to many future freedom fighters in Africa..

But I guess it's human nature, slow to appreciate-quick to find faults.

Consider the time the supposed slavery was stopped and colonialism ended. Over a hundred years. If they were benevolent, why then did they continue with colonialism and even had to kill and imprison those who asked for independence?

Wintertime:
You are fool whom knows nothing about history

A citizen from American ended slavery


And if I should be correct he was the first president of America

He has his statue moulded

Go check fact and stop behaving like a dunce just because of tribalism


American ended slavery

What kind of joke is this

ObosiUkwalla:
Britain started slave trade. Stop covering up evil

Slavery that has been going on since the days of Joseph is what Britain started??...

It wasn't even the British that started slave trade yet, they were the ones who made concerted effort into stopping it totally.
It's absurd that we Africans tend to blame them for all our woes instead of blaming our selfish, wicked, greedy & inhuman leaders.
We often seem to forget about the civilization & education that the British brought to us

danvon:
How come no one talks about the fact that it was Britain, not America, not Canada, that ended slavery in West Africa...
They refer to the late Queen as the Queen of a genocidal empire but not the Queen of the Empire that ended slavery and gave education to many future freedom fighters in Africa..

But I guess it's human nature, slow to appreciate-quick to find faults.

She didn't even partake in it, it was her parents and grandparents. She got to the thrown in the 1950s, and from then she started giving countries their independence. Go check when most countries got independence, it was from 1950s when she got to the thrown. Her mother and grandfather were the culprit, not her. Meanwhile, she wasn't the one that stopped Slave Trade, it was her mother.

But, if you think of what the British in general did in terms of Slavery and stealing of Africa's resources, you will not spare any of them.

One of the mistakes many Africans who have been wired not to think deeply make. Britain ended slavery not because of some benevolence or love they had for Africans. They ended slavery to stop the outflow of strong human resources from Africa to the Americas, because they needed those strong human resources on the continent to work in farms and other sectors that produced cheap raw materials to British companies/industries.

More like machines were made to do the job so no more need for slaves.

ObosiUkwalla:
Britain started slave trade. Stop covering up evil

This is untrue.

Wintertime:
You are fool whom knows nothing about history

A citizen from American ended slavery


And if I should be correct he was the first president of America

He has his statue moulded

Go check fact and stop behaving like a dunce just because of tribalism

Fact.

In 1863 President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring “all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” Nonetheless, the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation since it only applied to areas of the Confederacy currently in a state of rebellion (and not even to the loyal “border states” that remained in the Union). Lincoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would have to be followed by a constitutional amendment in order to guarantee the abolishment of slavery.
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/13th-amendment

In the 18th century a brutal trade network transported kidnapped Africans to European colonies in the Americas and the Caribbean to work as slaves, mostly on plantations. In 1787, campaigners against slavery such as Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp founded the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, believing that ending the trade was the first step towards eradicating slavery completely. They raised awareness about conditions (including with publications from former slaves such as Olaudah Equiano), boycotted slave-produced goods and petitioned Parliament.

In Parliament, the campaign was led by William Wilberforce. It was only after many failed attempts that, in 1807, the slave trade in the British Empire was abolished. However, slaves in the colonies (excluding areas ruled by the East India Company) were not freed until 1838 – and only after slave-owners, rather than the slaves themselves, received compensation.
https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/2015-parliament-in-the-making/get-involved1/2015-banners-exhibition/maria-amidu/1807-abolition-of-the-slave-trade/

After slavery, we had been peppered up enough for colonialism, we practically threw the damn doors open! 3 centuries of strife and mutual suspicion fuks with your head, so we welcomed our saviours from Arabian deserts and the great West! all we had to do was trade in our brains for theirs and bow to their conquering gods,

Of course, the British deserves a slight nod for not leaving us while weak to be totally devoured by the conquering jihad.

Luggard in his book gloated about Britain ruling Nigeria through the Fulani! And every 4 years we fight so hard to install one, because dummmmies don't read! They just want to be herded into the sea!

When your presidential candidates all want to be seen in the West it kind of explains the whole thing!

The first indication that we have any life left as a people is to ask...what the heck is Nigeria and who exactly was it made to benefit, but that is damn hard work, easier to just lie and pray to the
conquering god.

StaffofOrayan:
After slavery, we had been peppered up enough for colonialism, we practically threw the damn doors open! 3 centuries of strife and mutual suspicion fuks with your head, so we welcomed our saviours from Arabian deserts and the great West! all we had to do was trade in our brains for theirs and bow to their conquering gods.

And now, we japa, lol. But seriously, we did not invite them.

Most of us Nigerians come across Arabians and its inhabitants, when we (are brainwashed) read about Ishmaelites, and Midianites, and Amalekites, Buzites, Dedanites, Hagrites, Kadmonites, Kedarites, Kenites, Meunim, Naamathites, Sabeans, and Shuhites in an eurocentric holy book. And the Arabs read it too, and wrote theirs, the smart buggers.

Arabs and Europeans had been engaging for a long time. Africa was just land they fought their war on, I'd say. We did not invite them. They came to exploit the (human) resources we were not exploiting, and still aren't.

StaffofOrayan:
Of course, the British deserves a slight nod for not leaving us while weak to be totally devoured by the conquering jihad.

They came with a book. Built schools to teach us to read that we should ask and knock and seek, while the jihad is creating alimanjeris in our North.

Nod Britain.

StaffofOrayan:
Luggard in his book gloated about Britain ruling Nigeria through the Fulani! And every 4 years we fight so hard to install one, because dummmmies don't read! They just want to be herded into the sea!

Tinubu is not Fulani, give us credit please.

Luggard understood the Fulani were better educatedly aware with their Allah book than we southerners who were still worshipping spirits in the river and forest and Ogun and Sopona and Amadioha, so yes, he'd think Fulani should rule Nigeria. They after all had that same ideology of keeping some as slaves in gardens that seem so Edenic the slaves would not want to be free, while we down south were free as birds, literally. Besides, he'd experienced successful Islamic rule in India. Luggard however failed to realise the impact of Wilberforce on missionaries to Nigeria, I guess, for whom the beginning of being free is learning to read.

StaffofOrayan:
The first indication that we have any life left as a people is to ask...what the heck is Nigeria and who exactly was it made to benefit, but that is damn hard work, easier to just lie and pray to the conquering god.

This is easy.

Nigeria is my country. It must benefit me. And yes, it is damn hard work.

One of the mistakes many Africans who have been wired not to think deeply make. Britain ended slavery not because of some benevolence or love they had for Africans. They ended slavery to stop the outflow of strong human resources from Africa to the Americas, because they needed those strong human resources on the continent to work in farms and other sectors that produced cheap raw materials to British companies/industries.

Wise man. 😊

Of course the British had had enough workers and just needed to loot the raw materials of Africa to build upon the industrial revolution the African slaves had helped bring about.

Hence their colonial invasions shortly after “angelically ending the slave trade out of the goodness of their hearts’’.

According to AI, Britain owes Nigeria $50 trillion for its exploitation, and the world owes Africa $5,000 trillion.