Indentured White Servants Were Treated Worse than Black Slaves in the West Indies

On my travels of the good honest decent people I met where German and Japanese.

I will never be full of hatred towards them.
History is History.​
I would like to contrate on the slaves of today.
Slavery has never been abolished​
Lets go after the slave trader of today, let the money be used rescuing and benifit those still kicking and need help now.
 
King Billy said:
He didn't 'have slavery abolished', but he was a leading campaigner for it to abolished.
His campaigning resulted in the abolition of slaves being bought or sold throughout the British colonies. It didn't free those already enslaved.
He had a Damascene conversion and an almost total reversal of his previous beliefs. Although he continued to support social reforms internationally, his support for domestic political and regressive legislation continued.
He only became a leading campaigner for the abolition of slavery after being in contact with other abolitionists who persuaded him to take a leading role.


What!!
11 million of them transported across thousands of miles of ocean in such shocking conditions that 1.5 million never survived?

Wishful thinking on your part?
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Yes he had it abolished
 
If people thought that it was abuse then there would have been no slavery. It was a status. symbol to have black slaves and people envied those that had them. The slave trade was inhuman by todays standards but at the time it was going on then it was considered normal.
 
There is a pub in Hull still today called Ye old black boy. It has two statues of little black child slaves at the doors, it used to have black gargoil style heads of slaves on the facias of the pub. Nobody ever felt offended or that it was wrong in any way, that is in these times so it is still accepted by people.
 
Highway Man said:
If people thought that it was abuse then there would have been no slavery. It was a status. symbol to have black slaves and people envied those that had them. The slave trade was inhuman by todays standards but at the time it was going on then it was considered normal.
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And so did colonising land around the world.
Some religions back then even stoned women for not wearing the right clothes or killing you own daughter was seen as honour.
Can you imagine that now?
 
Highway Man said:
There is a pub in Hull still today called Ye old black boy. It has two statues of little black child slaves at the doors, it used to have black gargoil style heads of slaves on the facias of the pub. Nobody ever felt offended or that it was wrong in any way, that is in these times so it is still accepted by people.
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Does it depict the young lad as a bad person?
 
Highway Man said:
Quite the opposit, people were very fond of the statue, he was in a very smart uniform and looked happy and well fed.
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Slightly related. Was there a pub called the King Billy in Hull with a statue in the middle of the road outside.
 
Highway Man said:
Yes he had it abolished
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Wilberforce was a leading campaigner in Britain to Parliament stopping slaves being bought or sold in British colonies. The buying and selling of slaves continued in other parts of the world, especially in America.
Slaves that were alreadly enslaved continued as slaves until their death.
Their children were born into slavery and continued in salvery until their death.

How do you think that equates to it being abolished by Wilberforce?
 
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