Reparations. Why the Colonisers must pay. Truth is this: slavevoyages.org/tast/assessment/essays-intro-08.faces Why the rather sudden end to a business which, despite its high morbidity and mortality, had been seen as no different from any other until the late eighteenth century? This is a very large question which it would be presumptuous to attempt to answer here given the massive literature on the topic. One point is clear, The Traffic Did Not Fade Away; rather, it was hidden at time when the prices of slaves were rising to levels that had never previously attained. The economic imperatives clearly pointed to a continuation of the trade and without attempts to suppress it, the majority of the millions of people who crossed the Atlantic between 1820 and 1920 might well have been African rather than European, and enslaved rather than free. As it was, by the 1850s, for most in the Atlantic world, the slave trade had become a despised and illegal traffic. It is said that By the 1840s, the British had committed 10% of its naval resources to suppressing the trade; a scant half century earlier they were the leading slave trading nation. (Taken from the above listed website) When you go back today, people are still living in wooden shacks, still catering to Massa & Missys every whim. Oh they may have moved from the Big House to the Big Hotel, Get you a drink sir? Get your bags mam? What they are paid by way of salary would be classified as an insult to those living on benefits here in the U.K.K.K today & not much more than those surviving on food stamps in the U.S. Funny how outside of the many big hotels & the big fancy houses on Knobs Hill owned & occupied by big fancy white snobs; the Ex-Pat set, most are still living in shacks & slums, favelas or shanty towns. They cant even afford to buy a piece of land and build a descent house because Mr & Mrs Knob own more than half the friggin island & the rest has no infrastructure. But Hold on a minute, was that not what living under the shadow of the British Crown was supposed to be all about? So what exactly did the British Crown do for its Ex-Slaves post 1920s till their Independence? I keep hearing how Britain was 1st to sign up to abolish slavery, but the British were clearly operating their plantations & factories right up to the late 1920s (if not later on some smaller islands) and finally when the manacles HAD to come off, boom, bring em over to the uk, let them clean our toilets, empty our rubbish, mop up our vomit, wipe up our blood and pay them a pittance for it and abuse the all the way. Let their men & boys fill up our jails (stop em breeding & over populating the U.K. wont it) and leave the rest to fend for themselves. Europe is still living high off the ill gotten profits of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade & its rape & destruction of much of Africa & Australia and to believe that it isnt is pure denial! The following is a list of Countries in South America & Islands in the Caribbean. It lists their Dates of Independence & the nationality of their European Slave Masters & Mistresses. If no date is given, then it is still considered a territory of its colonising, slave owning nation & that colonising, slave owning nation is still dependent on it: Anguilla none (overseas territory of the UK) Antigua and Barbuda 1 November 1981 (from UK) Bahamas, The 10 July 1973 (from UK) Barbados 30 November 1966 (from UK) Belize 21 September 1981 (from UK) Bermuda none (overseas territory of the UK) Dominica 3 November 1978 (from UK) Grenada 7 February 1974 (from UK) Guyana 26 May 1966 (from UK) Haiti 1 January 1804 (from France) Jamaica 6 August 1962 (from UK) Montserrat none (overseas territory of the UK) Saint Kitts and Nevis 19 September 1983 (from UK) Saint Lucia 22 February 1979 (from UK) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 27 October 1979 (from UK) Suriname 25 November 1975 (from The Netherlands) Trinidad and Tobago 31 August 1962 (from UK)
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