Wild How History Classes Skipped that Part Britain literally Paid off slave Owners until 2015 like it was a Student loan.
Usermena on
Yeah, and the US did the same shit. Paid reparations to slave owners not former slaves. Paid them out for “ loss of property “
oneizm on
Can we get some not TikTok sources?
I’m certain it’s true. I just dislike people taking things as truth, and only being able to say “well I saw it on TikTok”. Especially when it’s important.
Edit: Republicans and racist bring “sources” all the time that if you look into them are full of shit. TikTok, Twitter, and the like are not reliable sources of information. Articles can and will be faked. Linking direct sources is important. We can’t just talk. We have to be reliable and consistent.
Choice_Research_1175 on
fuck this world
SuperSayian4Nappa on
While fucked up and inhumane from a legal standpoint it makes sense.
Genki-sama2 on
Yall ain’t know that? Shit that’s a taught thing in Caribbean history
TokugawaTabby on
We were not paying money to slave owners for that long. We were paying money to the people who lent the British government the money for the reparations.
It’s not exactly great but this fact is always framed in a way which makes a person think slave owners were getting the money until 2015.
A country always has to pay its debts
mankahlil on
That’s what Lincoln wanted to do in the US as well.
(And recolonize all the black folks to Nicaragua, Honduras, Liberia, or anywhere else he could have).
And when that failed, he wanted to keep black folks trapped in the south thru Black codes and in “apprenticeships” under the slave owners.
In many cases, the share cropping system fulfilled his vision. But luckily, he didn’t live to uphold the Black codes that punished Black people for migration. When alive, he supported an Indiana law that punished Black folks for coming into the state with lashings, fines, and/or prison time.
BusyBeeBridgette on
Yeah, for the time it makes sense. The people who owned slaves in the UK were exceedingly wealthy and it would lose them millions of pounds. So they had to be paid off. However, the British Government also set the Navy to block the slave trade out of Western Africa and stopped thousands upon thousands more from going to the places like the US. Even to this day the Royal Navy fights slaver ships out of West Africa. All in a bid stop slavery.
bylebog on
It’s taught in British schools as part of history. I hang out in a lot of online spaces with UK folks and they all know about it. So, only a surprise for Americans/those not from Britain.
Most of them think it was the right thing to do. “It’s the only way” but also think it’s fucked up they didn’t do reparations for the black folks.
As a white American, I think it’s shit, but my opinion isn’t worth much. However, I do shove it in their face any time they start getting thoughts of Empire.
CopiousCool on
France was known to do this too and they also still cripple their ex colonies by forcing the Franc on them and taking 1/3 of their GDP annually; if they want any of that money back they have to take it out as a LOAN at MARKET RATES
Thats right, they have to mortgage their own money
stfuhonkey1834 on
mhm. Black people are owed reparations. people will bend over ass backwards to justify why we shouldn’t but its simple fact.
joaaaaaannnofdarc on
My generation, millenials also paid this off using my taxes. That is why you cant get me to like that Benedict. Cumberbatch dude. His family needs to return that money first
Flying-lemondrop-476 on
and america fought the british in large part cuz they were gunna make slavery illegal.
Eis_ber on
Yep. Same for the Dutch.
Blitcut on
This is quite misleading. British slave owners did recieve reparations at the time of abolition but the government didn’t borrow from them to pay them. Those recieving long-term payments for the debt would’ve been the financiers who the British government borrowed from, except even long term this doesn’t necessarily hold because that debt got folded into the larger government debt which has in turn been restructured, refinanced and undergone various other financial management strategies. Notably there were some perpetual bonds, called consols, that were in part used to pay off the abolition debt among other debts. In 2015 the British government decided to pay off all remaining consol bonds and thus the last debt with any connection to the abolition of slavery, even if this connection was largely symbolic.
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Wild How History Classes Skipped that Part Britain literally Paid off slave Owners until 2015 like it was a Student loan.
Yeah, and the US did the same shit. Paid reparations to slave owners not former slaves. Paid them out for “ loss of property “
Can we get some not TikTok sources?
I’m certain it’s true. I just dislike people taking things as truth, and only being able to say “well I saw it on TikTok”. Especially when it’s important.
Edit: Republicans and racist bring “sources” all the time that if you look into them are full of shit. TikTok, Twitter, and the like are not reliable sources of information. Articles can and will be faked. Linking direct sources is important. We can’t just talk. We have to be reliable and consistent.
fuck this world
While fucked up and inhumane from a legal standpoint it makes sense.
Yall ain’t know that? Shit that’s a taught thing in Caribbean history
We were not paying money to slave owners for that long. We were paying money to the people who lent the British government the money for the reparations.
It’s not exactly great but this fact is always framed in a way which makes a person think slave owners were getting the money until 2015.
A country always has to pay its debts
That’s what Lincoln wanted to do in the US as well.
(And recolonize all the black folks to Nicaragua, Honduras, Liberia, or anywhere else he could have).
And when that failed, he wanted to keep black folks trapped in the south thru Black codes and in “apprenticeships” under the slave owners.
In many cases, the share cropping system fulfilled his vision. But luckily, he didn’t live to uphold the Black codes that punished Black people for migration. When alive, he supported an Indiana law that punished Black folks for coming into the state with lashings, fines, and/or prison time.
Yeah, for the time it makes sense. The people who owned slaves in the UK were exceedingly wealthy and it would lose them millions of pounds. So they had to be paid off. However, the British Government also set the Navy to block the slave trade out of Western Africa and stopped thousands upon thousands more from going to the places like the US. Even to this day the Royal Navy fights slaver ships out of West Africa. All in a bid stop slavery.
It’s taught in British schools as part of history. I hang out in a lot of online spaces with UK folks and they all know about it. So, only a surprise for Americans/those not from Britain.
Most of them think it was the right thing to do. “It’s the only way” but also think it’s fucked up they didn’t do reparations for the black folks.
As a white American, I think it’s shit, but my opinion isn’t worth much. However, I do shove it in their face any time they start getting thoughts of Empire.
France was known to do this too and they also still cripple their ex colonies by forcing the Franc on them and taking 1/3 of their GDP annually; if they want any of that money back they have to take it out as a LOAN at MARKET RATES
Thats right, they have to mortgage their own money
mhm. Black people are owed reparations. people will bend over ass backwards to justify why we shouldn’t but its simple fact.
My generation, millenials also paid this off using my taxes. That is why you cant get me to like that Benedict. Cumberbatch dude. His family needs to return that money first
and america fought the british in large part cuz they were gunna make slavery illegal.
Yep. Same for the Dutch.
This is quite misleading. British slave owners did recieve reparations at the time of abolition but the government didn’t borrow from them to pay them. Those recieving long-term payments for the debt would’ve been the financiers who the British government borrowed from, except even long term this doesn’t necessarily hold because that debt got folded into the larger government debt which has in turn been restructured, refinanced and undergone various other financial management strategies. Notably there were some perpetual bonds, called consols, that were in part used to pay off the abolition debt among other debts. In 2015 the British government decided to pay off all remaining consol bonds and thus the last debt with any connection to the abolition of slavery, even if this connection was largely symbolic.