📚 History 101 📚 ➡Individuals and small groups of black people have been living in Britain for at least 500 years. When the “triangular trade” began, manufactured goods went from Bristol, Liverpool and London to the African coast, where textiles and guns were bartered for black slaves. The slaves were taken across the Atlantic to the Leeward Islands, Surinam and Jamaica, and there exchanged for sugar, spices and rum. These goods were then brought back - on the third leg of the “triangle” — to Britain, and sold. It was an enormously profitable trade — one product of which was the creation of black communities in the slave port towns, as slaves and black sailors found their way to Britain. By 1800 the black population of Britain was probably around 10,000, from a general population of 9 million. 🔚 ** Id like to think a minority of Irish folk have either forgotten or, are ignorant to the fact how they were once upon a time part of an English Trinity = ⚠No Blacks, No Irish, No dogs... Some cheek to accuse black people of taking their resources. I think those racists should be quiet 😞😞🙊
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:07:39 +0000
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