Very good point. People working in the mills up north were treated appallingly.

And stealing our land.

does that include or exclude the working classes that were too poor to even live in Britain anymore and who rushed off to the colonies?

That's precisely what I was thinking

wait in line

We must apologise to the Pope for destroying his 920 monasteries in the late 1530s.

Clearly u don't decendent from slaves

Exactly. Apology isn’t enough. Redistributing the wealth built on exploiting others would change things. That is what you meant, right?

So what happened to the money?

​@@Captain.Pugwashprobably wasn't a direct first born heir just a decendent

Wish I could post your comment a thousand times.

I am more concerned with modern slavery and the gangs currently operating doing exact same in the English Channel rather than something happening 100 years ago.

The Slavery Abolition Act set out the amount of money that the UK treasury should pay to the 3,000 families that had owned slaves, which ended up being roughly £20 million. But as the agreement to pay reparations was made almost 200 years ago, many people living in the UK today didn't even know that slave owners had received reparations and that the debts were still being paid until 2015. It was only in 2018 that the public became aware, after the government shared a post on social media highlighting the fact, and many people were angry to learn that that their taxes had been used to help compensate slave owners.

The people you mention that were equally outraged, The Abolitionist Society, actually did achieve something remarkable, they used the donations from the British people to get their members elected to parliament, and passed the law outlawing slavery in the colonies, it already was in Britain, which forced the Royal Navy to actually commit more forces, there were already 2 ships there trying to combat the transatlantic slave trade, after the end of the Napoleonic wars in Europe, to the fight to end slavery. Many of the ships that were sent to Africa and the Americas were manned by some of the freed slaves, and every slave ship that was captured and had it's slaves freed was celebrated by the people back in Britain. Although the Royal Navy succeeded in it's mission to end the slave trade in Africa, it was ultimately futile, because as soon as the Royal Navy left Africa, the slave trade started up again, but this time it was more circumspect and less open, with many of the former coastal slave markets re-opening further inland, and being almost exclusively for the African domestic market, at least that was the case on the western side of Africa. The East African slave trade was a different matter however, as many of the slaves there were destined for the nations of the middle east, and many of the slaves were transported overland, with the male slaves being castrated, to serve in the hareems, watching over the young women. The Royal Navy was a little less successful here, but still forced the closure of many of the slave markets on or near the coast. Slavery still exists today, of course, particularly throughout Africa and the middle east, one example being a facebook post from 2012 of a middle eastern family offering a 16 year old, castrated, African youth for sale. Your points about the establishment suppressing the voices of reason, mainly happened in the colonies, where the governors had a lot of autonomy, and could ignore the protestations from the Abolitionist Society back in Britain, and line their pockets with backhanders from the plantation owners, but they could not ignore the Royal Navy and Parliament, so slavery was ended throughout those colonies that Britain directly controlled, eventually. I apologise for the wall of text, but I admire the whole idea of a group of people bucking the trend of slavery being a normal thing, throughout the world, and actually doing something about it, and eventually succeeding in wiping it out, for a while at least.

​@@Operationfocus u mean white human traffickers in Europe & America?

Nigeria didn't exist back then.

Explain how countries that didn't exist until Europe created them profited from the transatlantic slave trade. Quickly.

How much profit did African nations realise from transatlantic slavery?

@@zabocathief602they got guns and other European goods

​@@Notreallyhereanymore which nations and to what monetary value?

That is true, but that's not what is being discussed here. Trying to use your own example, if your father murdered someone - having you show empathy and apologise for his actions to the family of those he murdered would be the right thing to do for anyone who isn't a complete psychopath.

If your father commits murder and steals the wealth of his victim via slavery and colonialism, YOU who is enjoying the fruits of that stolen wealth, ARE also a thief who needs to pay back.

Shame on your father

@@Yamthief Nobody has to apologize for the actions of others. And nobody should be forced to apologize by bullies. If we are not part of a decision we don't have to apologize for those who took the decision without asking us. I am not paying one penny to a black person, full stop. Not one more penny. Stop robbing people. This is great Britain, a country who fought hard to end slavery. Stop being ungrateful sods. This is a country where people are white because 1) They were born in Great Britain and not in Africa. 2) There is no sun here, no need for much melanin on the skin. You don't like it? You can go and live in many countries in the world. Slavery was abolished over 200 years ago. Don't you have any matters to deal from the present? Are we living in paradise? What are you trying to distract us from when you are going around with this agenda?

​@@african-history-fountain it's not stolen if war as the law of war supercedes

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there is no money to be made from that my friend.

@@TommyAtkins-bd5ky ?

Everyone forgets this important information

Why were reparations being paid to the descendants of slave owners and not the descendants of slaves?

Because the slaves were their property they were made to give up. To compensate the losses, they made it so they would get money equivalent to the value of their money

Not true.All slavery debt was converted to gilts and bonds in 1915.

@@stephfoxwell4620 From GOV UK 27th march 2015 "From the redemption of the final four undated gilts announced today, the Treasury will pay off in full £382 million of outstanding debt" Bonds & guilts fancy writing watermarks gilded embossed promise to pay ie money.

The Republic of Jamaica ?.. all republic' stand on the one pillar of natural law,, without natural law there can be no natural justice.... natural justice brings collective bargaining and bloodless revolutions...denial ,prevents collective bargaining and is a sure sign of repeat behaviour...in fact it's "three times more likely" to repeat according to Genocide Watch...that's not savagery that's civilization.

What of enjoying the luxuries of savagely gotten gains?

🤡🤡 says the guy benefiting from slavery,

Ye, entitled purposeless people wanting something for nothing and leftie elites wanting a jolly while they hollowly self-flagellate are both equally revolting in different ways. They both boil down to an individual void of any real self-worth however.

@@francispowell1811 That is another question. You may abstractly try to correct an injustice, but no one is responsible for the actions of his or her forefathers.

The Slavery Abolition Act set out the amount of money that the UK treasury should pay to the 3,000 families that had owned slaves, which ended up being roughly £20 million. But as the agreement to pay reparations was made almost 200 years ago, many people living in the UK today didn't even know that slave owners had received reparations and that the debts were still being paid until 2015. It was only in 2018 that the public became aware, after the government shared a post on social media highlighting the fact, and many people were angry to learn that that their taxes had been used to help compensate slave owners.

Why? It was only one of millions of crimes. Are you bothered about the white slaves taken in 1631 from Scotland and Ireland by black African and Muslim slavers?

@@stephenmurray2851 The West cost of England was plagued by black slavers for hundreds of years, around 1.5 million white people were taken into slavery.

You are under the mistaken impression that the slave owners in this video, enslaved your ancestors, they did not. Your ancestors were enslaved by their own people, or their neighbours, in Africa, then they were sold in the slave markets in the coastal cities, and transported to the Americas and the Caribbean. Sadly, it's a common misconception that white Europeans kidnapped Africans and enslaved them. Be thankful that your ancestors were not sold to any of the middle east countries, as the male slaves were castrated and you would not even have been born.

It was a political necessity at the time, but it's shameful that it went on for so long.

Ireland endured over 700 years of English persecution for “sins of the father.”

The first black slave society was ..africa

Dont be ridiculous. It is grifting and trying to rewrite history. The MOPEs can stick their CRT.

@@stephfoxwell4620 Obviously you've been listening to the American far right, which is odd.

Thank you for the book recommendations, seeking to be more informed at a greater depth.

You clearly your agenda. Clearly you choose not to see what is in front of you. So typical.

@@snsn7251 ? Explain? Typical in what sense?

@@snsn7251 suppose you’re just another anti semitic goon then.

I'm surprised. If I were a descendant of Jewish survivors I think I would demand compensation from the German state for their overtaking of Jewish homes, businesses, art etc. where documentstion of this is available. This is not equal to blaming any German individuals of today. The descendants of Nazi or British slave-owning culprits have no personal obligation to apologize but imo it's a considerate thing to do. The states involved, however, should. Germany has. Has Britain?

@@bisratezra8247 thanks for your considerate and well thought out response. I’m not personally too well informed about Germany’s reparations regarding European atrocities. I do know that they recently made reparations for their first Holocaust carried out in German South West Africa (Namibia) and I do know that these reparations were paid by people that committed no crime to people on whom no crime was committed. My own ancestry is mixed. My mothers side is heavily affected by what happened to my Grandfather…..but me? I have Irish, Scottish (my Jewish Grandfathers wife), English and Dutch blood in my veins as well as Jewish. So how do we go about determining who must be paid reparations and who must pay them? How is it all done fairly? I also have a Dutch friend who’s family benefitted from Nazi Germany through business. What about Vichy French? Must we carry out a European wide ancestral census to evaluate everyone’s links to global historical atrocities? Also - what about all the money that was spent on the 100 year battle that was waged against slavery by the British Navy - and all the lives lost. Surely that would need to be taken into consideration to ensure equity? One more thing - I have a friend from Ghana who’s Asante ancestors were heavily involved in the slave trade. Not just with the British but also the Dutch Portuguese Norwegians and French…..she speaks openly about it. Perhaps it would then also be necessary to evaluate west Africa too. And finally. Don’t forget the Barbary slave trade……there’s a lot of English who were taken into slavery right up til the 18th century by North Africans from Tunisia……maybe they should have reparations? And also the eastern Arab slave trade that was far bigger and long lasting than the trans Atlantic slave trade…..🤷🏼

Why didn't your coal mining ancestors hand you a palatial mansion? I assume you'll give your children something in your will? It's called generational wealth. It defines part of you before you were born.

Male life expectancy in Salford in 1831 was 20. For a slave in Carolina it was 38.

My white catholic ancestors need to apologize to my jewish ancestors for burning them in the steak. The good thing is that the "repatriations" are going to move from my left pocket to my right pocket, but still remain on myself! This entitled stupid ignorant lazy folk have no idea or real life, or history for that matter. We have to suffer them on a daily basis!

But black people are special. MOPEs. It's why Diane Abbott gets so cross about gypsies and jews stealing the suffering limelight.

That means you only have to pay 75% compo. But you'll get 25% back.

At huge cost to the British taxpayer and in blood.

they may not be responsible but they are liable. this is practically a law of nature

But people are responsible for what they do with their inheritance.

They are responsible for receiving stolen goods & proceeds from abhorrent crimes.....it’s dirty money

So u wudnt have a problem with formatting the gains Britain gained then?

True

No they didn't. Some on them were visionary and managed to make money. There is no such thing as "the working class". If today you are "working class" and tomorrow you make money and are rich, does the rich guy have to give his money to the "working class". You can move in society nowadays. We have no classes pretty much anymore. You want to have money? Go and work for it. Nobody has to give their to you just because you want it.

​@@Talk4UK lol cool story

The slaves were given the Caribbean islands.

its the history of the world.

It would have been better to execute the prisoners instead of selling them.

In Brazil they talk about this non-stop. We had a break during Bolsonaro but it started again…

​@@franckcolomb5579 seems u dnt like hearing about your peoples history,

@@samanth. i love it! I also love wokes crying upon their social failures🤣

Spain granted citizenship to the descendents of exiles from the spanish civil war, which was almost 100 years ago.

@@franckcolomb5579 says the guy whose country was built by slavery & your ancestors only contributed to brutality,

Like my morning turd😂

Write a letter to the President then.... contact the papers.

The UKs involvement in the slave trade commenced in 1655 and ended in 1807. That is not 400 years. In 1507 America had barely been discovered.

The way this is going you are going to erase the enslaved people from history because what happend to them was so bad that nobody should know it existed. Why don't you people focus your anger to the enslaved people of today I don't understand. You don't even have to go to Africa, just here in the UK. Are you going to do something about those people or you just care for "your" enslaved ancesters as you are trying to milk people for money?

😂 I agree with this comment!!!!

Very true, they should pay and also the government. If taxes need to be increase then so be it.

I agree with you about Mr. Lascelles, but not fully about the Trevalyn family. People still have property rights and need their wealth for their own purposes. 100K GPB is still fairly generous, though of course if they gave more voluntarily that would be welcome.

@@KINGCABA-if4nk Your ancestors were the ones who sold your ancestors. They should pay your "repatriations". Go and talk to them in Africa, that is where slaves were sold. The white man didn't hunt you in the planes, they already paid money for the slaves, and they later paid for the end of slave trade.

Lord Lascelles would be correct addressal I guess.

It doesn't make it right, at least they want to set some of it right! I think that this isn't such a bad step in my opinion, i don't know why people are offended when their families have benefitted from such an evil system! Doesn't make them guilty for there ancestors crimes, but the families that are rich because of it should do something at least...

@@fxhzwingzero I didn't say slavery is right and I didn't say I'm offended either. It's ok for us to disagree, I'm fine with you having a different opinion to mine.

It is m*rxist CRT. They are trying to make black people the MOPEs. Trying to oust the Holocaust and replace it with the transatlantic slave trade.

We accept cash 💰 only.

That's probably a No

or the Irish who ended up in the colonies because they couldn't survive in Ireland?

@@hobbabobba7912 That’s because the Irish are not a bunch of whiny cry babies like . . .

​@@figgettit ignorant little Englander... Do you Brits think we fought British rule for centuries for the laugh of it or something? When people fight, they fight for a good reason and when a nation fights it's because something was taken away from them! After the Norman/English Invasion of Ireland in the 1100s, we then had Planters arrive as per The Plantations in 16th- and 17th-century which involved the confiscation of Irish-owned land by the English Crown and the colonisation of land with settlers from Britain. We fought back: The two Desmond Rebellions took place in 1569-1573 and 1579-1583 to *fight against the threat of the extension of the English government* over the province. The successful Battle of Clontibret was *fought against the British* in County Monaghan in 1595. The successful Battle of the Yellow Ford was *fought against the British* in County Armagh in 1598. The Nine Years' War, sometimes called Tyrone's Rebellion took place in Ireland from 1593 to 1603. It was fought between an Irish alliance to *fight against English rule in Ireland.* The Rebellion of 1641 took place when Irish Catholics were being threatened by expansion of the anti-Catholic English Parliament and Scottish Planters and they *rebelled against English and Protestant domination.* The Irish Rebellion of 1798 was a major uprising *against British rule in Ireland.* (The Society of United Irishmen was led primarily by liberal Protestants). The Irish wanted an end to anti-Catholic discrimination, greater Irish self-governance, and to roll back the Plantations of Ireland. The Irish rebellion of 1803 was launched by Irish republicans *against British rule in Ireland* The Easter Rising of 1916 was piloted by Irish republicans *against British rule in Ireland* with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic. The civil rights movement in the early 1960s challenged the inequality and discrimination against ethnic Irish Catholics that was perpetrated by the Ulster Protestant community. Derry activists' marched on the 5 October 1968 in Derry, but were attacked by the RUC and loyalists. THAT IS A SNAPSHOT OF HOW WE HAVE FOUGHT AND RESISTED BOTH BRITISH RULE AND DISCRIMINATION BY THE UNIONIST COMMUNITY!

The Slavery Abolition Act set out the amount of money that the UK treasury should pay to the 3,000 families that had owned slaves, which ended up being roughly £20 million. But as the agreement to pay reparations was made almost 200 years ago, many people living in the UK today didn't even know that slave owners had received reparations and that the debts were still being paid until 2015. It was only in 2018 that the public became aware, after the government shared a post on social media highlighting the fact, and many people were angry to learn that that their taxes had been used to help compensate slave owners.

Ireland should cough up too. In 1807 Ireland was part of the UK.

@@stephfoxwell4620And what about the tribal chieftains?

@@stephfoxwell4620 Africa is the one who needs to cough up. They were the ones who made the money. They were the ones who captured - or not their people to sell them for money. Maybe many of those slaves volunteer themselves, like it is happening in Africa today, with the "Children of the Lake".

Goldsmith, eh?

Slavery was a world wide problem. Stop being selective in your outrage and move on with your life.

You do realise that the Bible, and you're fictional god, dictates the LAWS for owning people as property, and specifies how you can trick them into being enslaved for their lives and handed down to your children,. and the extent to which you can beat them without facing any punishment,. for they are your money, your property. the rules are different for jewish slaves,.. and this is not endentured slavery for debt, although, that's still owning people as property.

Exactly. They are asking the government to look at reparations so we will all pay, whilst they will conveniently hang on to the vast wealth and stately homes their families made from the business and the 1billion plus in todays money that we have already paid them to get rid of their slaves.

The Italian government of today has nothing to do with the Roman Empire, most Italians cant even trace their lineage back to the Romans smdh . a bunch of invasions happened to Italy in the centuries since the Ceasars ruled smh

Accounting for inflation they own us sextrillons

And the Normans. Or how about the Germans?

And Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. When they were the Barbary states they committed acts of slavery.

Brits deflecting from their colonial wrongdoings as normal... No wonder you got Brexit... gammons.

As long as what they come back for is right fully theirs, who can blame them?

So in turn will Africa be paying reparations to those impacted by slavering, considering most the slavers in Africa were Africans themselves? Will india be paying for all its crimes against humanity? Or is it just the British that are expected to pay… when every nation on this planet has at some point profited from crimes against humanity (and many still are)

The Slavery Abolition Act set out the amount of money that the UK treasury should pay to the 3,000 families that had owned slaves, which ended up being roughly £20 million. But as the agreement to pay reparations was made almost 200 years ago, many people living in the UK today didn't even know that slave owners had received reparations and that the debts were still being paid until 2015. It was only in 2018 that the public became aware, after the government shared a post on social media highlighting the fact, and many people were angry to learn that that their taxes had been used to help compensate slave owners.

Yeah whites should sue the Muslims who enslaved them!

He is a very poor public speaker.

Should we compensate the families whose six year olds worked in coal mines in South Wales in the 1850s? Should we compensate those whose remote ancestors were executed as witches in the 16th century? Or are black folk the MOPEs?

No slave owner were compensated. The slave owners were African people who sold them for money. The slave traders paid the price for the product. It was a business at the time, the same way that nowadays we are modern "slaves". It is like in 200 years time asking for repatriations from our employers for having employed us. Many people until recently would work for food and table. It is only in the last 50 years or so that poor people have become so grand that they go around the world thinking they are in charge of it.

The Irish have the last laugh though... The Irish passport outranks their piece of toilet paper. The Irish have one day in the calendar year when the world turns green ☘ Ireland is the only country in Europe to have USA preclearance in both Dublin and Shannon Airports. .... Their economy is BELOW sanctioned Russia's. Their beaches are covered in excrement. Their nurses and police are raiding food banks in 2023. They've no allies and are both the sick man of the G20 and a laughing stock.

And what did your ancestors to these people afterward?

They did catch a lot but they bought most from the African kingdoms and empires that existed

there were no slave economies in Africa. There is no need for it as the land is as per european observation far more forgiving than any other on earth. to wit arabs are not africans.

​@@TB-oh8zl they were rightfully Conquered The kingdom of Benin deserved to be destroyed

@@TheMagicJIZZ What goes around.......

Irish Famine? More like Genocidal Famine.

The Slavery Abolition Act set out the amount of money that the UK treasury should pay to the 3,000 families that had owned slaves, which ended up being roughly £20 million. But as the agreement to pay reparations was made almost 200 years ago, many people living in the UK today didn't even know that slave owners had received reparations and that the debts were still being paid until 2015. It was only in 2018 that the public became aware, after the government shared a post on social media highlighting the fact, and many people were angry to learn that that their taxes had been used to help compensate slave owners.

Slaves were privately owned. The British Government spent 83 years and hundred millions eradicating slave trading across the globe.

So you live in a wealthy country and enjoy the privileges that brings … this country was built on slavery and theft.

@@thisisanfield7085 Thanks for that totally ignorant and ill informed version of British history.

Thank Britain for abolishing what they started?!

It's like thanking someone for stoppning raping, eating and looking you.

The Slavery Abolition Act set out the amount of money that the UK treasury should pay to the 3,000 families that had owned slaves, which ended up being roughly £20 million. But as the agreement to pay reparations was made almost 200 years ago, many people living in the UK today didn't even know that slave owners had received reparations and that the debts were still being paid until 2015. It was only in 2018 that the public became aware, after the government shared a post on social media highlighting the fact, and many people were angry to learn that that their taxes had been used to help compensate slave owners.

@@bisratezra8247 You think the British started slavery? You are kidding me? Just how mentally challenged are you? Read some books, mate.

What about white slaves in the Barbary states? When are a North African people going to pay up?

So are the viking attacks on the GB, the romans, etc. Men have fought for land and control since times immemorial. And will always. In my opinion slaves had it easy if you compare with the Holocaust and other attrocities. It looks like black people think that because they are black they should be immune to difficulties in life and suffering. Black people need to read about todays world and history books that haven't been rewritten to understand that they were not the only ones who were enslaved. Why don't people who are going on about "repatriations" do something to improve the lives of the black people of today? Is there no need? And the white victims of black people - in the Uk as well. Today's victims want "repatriations" as well. And since we are working the numbers we should see how much this country gives to black people who arrive here to benefit from it.

I kill & rob (slavery in a nutshell) someone then four to five generations later my family still live off that same money, if you was my future family member would you bury your head hoping you never see the victims family or would you seek redemption or even feel guilty, sorry may not be enough but its better for all than bushed under the carpet denial.

I would like to know if black people are going to apologize for the decapitation of white people in Africa? And pay repatriations to their sons and daughters who are still alive? The rapes, being the rapists still alive? And so on...

Because once you have an apology you can push for a cash apology

They are rich because of what they are apologising for, the slaves families are still poor with less opportunities than the rich enslavours families. The only just fair way to create balance is what the video is talking about "reparations".

@@jymlife5314 Some people are poor because they are very stupid, ignorant, lazy and incompetent. They always blame others for their lack of capabilities and think that if others achieved and they haven't then they are entitled to have the things they want. There are opportunities for those who are deserving of them. I am not handing money for lazy bums. Do you want money? Go and work for it.

And the public also paid a lot of money already to the plantation owners in compensation when slavery was abolished

Laura Trevelyan is a sanctimonious hypocrite,but then she was at the BBC.

Nobody should Nick it either

@@timcomley5948 didnt they nick it to begin with.

Your pathetic tale of fake woe about damage to South London is less than insignificant when compared to what Nazi Germany did to entire countries in Central Europe. Still, no proper reparations have ever been paid.

Time for solidarity: workers of the world unite!! Don't be sidetracked by divide and rule.

@@tinterlight Stop taking drugs fool.

​@@tinterlight Agreed let's move forward together.

@@Operationfocus Proverbs 11:21 Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.