Point still stands. Apparently you have no understanding of the British Slave Trade – they didn't abolish it to stop slaves from rebelling, the abolished it because of the diligent efforts of Whig MPs William Wilberforce and Edmund Burke ("The Father of Anglo-American Conservatism") who revealed in the halls of Parliament through fiery speeches the evils of the slave trade and fired all Britain up with moral outrage that led to the destruction of the slave trade. Morality and humanity were the factors of principle behind that decision, but regardless of their intentions – Even IF they abolished slavery purely of selfish motivations, as you claim – the Fact still remains that they did, in fact, abolish it, which incontestably was a good thing, and that that inspired many a colonial expedition into Africa.
No, the cannibals and savage murderers in fact were the driving force behind the continuation of the slave trade (and in a delicious irony for today's leftists, these cannibals and murderers were Black) and they captured and sold other tribes, with whom t hey were constantly warring, to sell into slavery. The Europeans purchased these people from the black Africans who had captured them in the first place. This obviously is not an oppressor vs. oppressed situation, a white vs. black situation – horrible people were on both sides of it. Yet Britain it was that first abolished slavery, ended the wicked practices of the savage tribes, and freed the slaves. And you are now in the awkward position of arguing that their abolition of slavery somehow doesn't count as a good thing. While talking about this I might also add that the Catholic Church abolished slavery in Europe in the MIDDLE AGES – yeah, white Christians, CENTURIES BEFORE HAITI, ABOLISHED SLAVERY ACROSS AN ENTIRE CONTINENT, while MUSLIMS continued to enslave ONE MILLION WHITES. White Christians sure did a lot to snuff out slavery, more than any other group of people on the planet.
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For starters, when I say the government was coerced and abolished slavery for self-preservation, rioting of slaves was one of many factors, and I’m not saying their government was a homogeneous entity. They had a lot of internal discourse in a one-party majority state. The Whigs were a minority for a while beforehand, and the Tories did require public pressure to create the necessary push for anti-slavery policy. The Tories needing that pressure was how I mean it when I say their government required coercion and did it out of self-preservation, because the Tories would be entirely voted… Read more