Jefferson made sure to try and strange their nation economically though, but that’s besides the point. The British abolished slavery because nations and areas like Haiti were rebelling, and Britain didn’t want to deal with the revolts, nor did they wish to deal with the widespread protest their government was facing. The French and British only ever banned slavery beforehand inside of their nation upon white residents, instead opting for indentured servitude that was, for Al practical reasons, the same thing. The British government however cared very little about the moral issues of slavery itself, as shown by a rather common trend of British ships taking ships carrying slaves in their waters, killing the leaders, and often selling those slaves into slavery again to turn a profit in nearby nations or colonies.
The British didn’t care much, they were pressured to do it. The colonizing expeditions largely occurred off of the desire for money and power, with little to no solid moral justification other than the “civilizing mission”, an excuse frequently proven to be false by their obviously horrific treatment of their colonies, and only when they were weakened did colonies like Canada ever get to leave without violence, because their nation was crumbling in its imperialist ways. Many of the described cannibals and savage murderers paled in comparison to the murder and death the British committed in order to supposedly civilize them. A large chunk of the stories about the tribes and civilizations were flagrant lies sent back to the British as fuel for their civilizing mission.
The nations who were forced into liberalizing have only ever shown improvement from growing their own economies through whatever trade they could’ve gained by themselves. During colonization, their personal growth was languishing in comparison to what it could’ve been had the British simply provided them with the means to grow themselves as they were claiming to be doing. The British in turn gained mas… Read more
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Maybe I should have said first "notable" nation because of Haiti, but whatever. 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 humanit… Read more
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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