Comment on mmmm yes undoubtedly
Allonzee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As an American, I wish they won.
They outlawed slavery looong before we did.
Comment on mmmm yes undoubtedly
Allonzee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As an American, I wish they won.
They outlawed slavery looong before we did.
RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because they were ahead on industry and slavery was less profitable. Don’t think England was going around thinking it was wrong.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 month ago
It was a very popular civil movement and governments were essentially forced to act.
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is this true? Or am I getting woooooshed?
REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 month ago
In 1972, 400,000 british people (of 6 million at the time) gave up sugar to boycott slavery. Seventy years later, mill workers of Manchester supported embargo of Confederacy during US civil war by refusing to handle cotton picked by enslaved people. This came at a hefty personal cost as their way of making living depended on it. Abraham Lincoln later acknowledged this show of support. There’s statue of him in Manchester.
The British abolishment movement was so popular that they had more signatures demanding the end of slavery than the total amount of votes in the last election. Later, at it’s peak, something like 25% of the entire British naval budget went towards capturing and freeing slave ships.