mistermack wrote:Seabass wrote:
Of course Britain had slavery. Where do you think the British colonists in North America got it from?
Aren't you British? How is it even possible that a British person "can't remember for certain" whether or not Britain had slavery?
The question was about Britain. Not the colonies. Slavery was legal in the colonies, but not in Britain.
Slavery virtually disappeared in Britain after the Normans took over. That is true slavery, where you could buy and sell a slave.
But like I said, there were various forms of bonded labour that persisted.
Slavery was abolished throughout the empire in 1833, with a few exceptions.
I can't remember because the Norman Conquest was a long time ago, and 1833 was quite a long time ago as well.
Britain took part in the slave trade via the colonies. The colonies didn't get the practice from Britain. But British traders traded slaves from Africa to the colonies. That's common knowledge. I was talking about slavery IN Britain. Because that was the question.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_britain
At the risk of sounding like some nutjob conspiracy theorist;-
The "Cestui Que Vie" act of 1666 effectively made bonded slaves of the entire population of the UK. - The government declared everyone dead and "lost beyond the sea" (under admiralty law). All the people and their property were taken into trust and the state became the trustee husband and therefore owner of the titles of all the people and all their property.
This is the beginnings of birth certificates and what is known as a "legal fiction" here in the UK. - The legal fiction being the "
person" (not a human being). Everything we possess which requires registration - identity, cars, etc. actually belong to the state. We are merely registered keepers of these things.
Edit:- Oh yeah, the video in the op
is horrible to watch.
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