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History undergrad in all things Kaiser Wilhelm II. Nostalgic for empires & their grand architecture. Tory through and through. Beauty is always in the past

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Kemi Badenoch arrives on a truck branded with Tory “Fuel Britannia” branding
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Worth noting that virtually none of the countries who abstained/voted against actually practice modern slavery, whereas a fair few of those who voted in favour do. This is all just a PR stunt.
Politics Global@PolitlcsGlobal

🚨🌍 NEW: The UN has voted to recognise the slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity” and also called for reparations to the countries impacted The UK, France and other EU member states abstained whilst the US, Israel and Argentina opposed the proposal

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@Tuhhbbmjjjjnb So you can’t debate with actual facts so you just resort to meaningless semantics. Ironically you just listed some of the key places where modern day slavery is still happening.
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sa ts@Tuhhbbmjjjjnb·
@BritzerHist indians and africans , arabs and persians are rising up against the british which is wonderful thing go cry me a river
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That’s a dangerous oversimplification of the transatlantic slave trade. Africa slave societies existed long before Europeans arrive and traded slaves northward to the Arabs and Sahara, before shifting south for European guns & profit. African rulers actively supplied & profited.
sa ts@Tuhhbbmjjjjnb

@Dave91473661 @BritzerHist @WanjiruNjoya White peole being racist for 600yrars. Good on Ghana. Any black Person that did not take part in slavery with British were themselves killed or enslaved by British. Go read it up. Britain was a curse on people of Africa.

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@Tuhhbbmjjjjnb That’s historically incorrect and a deliberate oversimplification. If you cannot accept that there were more significant reasons for British dominance, end it hear
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sa ts@Tuhhbbmjjjjnb·
@BritzerHist brtian won , because it also banned slavery at the time it knew it never need slavery and it knew its competitors in europe needed slavery
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@Tuhhbbmjjjjnb Britain won due its navy, technology, and steady government not because it ended slavery. France abolished slavery before the British did but that didn’t change anything.
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sa ts@Tuhhbbmjjjjnb·
@BritzerHist and britain won when slavery ended because the french portugueese german, belguim, colonies erupted while britain became a superpower
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@Tuhhbbmjjjjnb The abolition movement was built on humanitarian and Christian grounds. Not because of the Industrial Revolution. It was very much a moral issue in Britain
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sa ts@Tuhhbbmjjjjnb·
@BritzerHist brtian only ended slavery because of the Industrial Revolution and to take over the West SPAIN-FRANCE-PORTUGAL-NETHERLANDS-GERANY which was still relying on slaves
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@Tuhhbbmjjjjnb I don’t deny the oppression but ending slavery on your own terms? In the Gold Coast alone it wasn’t until the early 1900’s that Britain managed to enforce its ban on slavery. Many African kingdoms opposed the abolition of slavery. Mauritania didn’t abolish slavery until 1981
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sa ts@Tuhhbbmjjjjnb·
@BritzerHist and the best part, we know your language but you dont know ours so we know what you oppressors keep saying carry on the transatlantic trade was oppression on steroids and colonilaism stopped africans from developing and ending slavery on our terms
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Luke Robert Black 🌳@lukerobertblack·
The Handmaid’s Tale is an great book and I’m sorry that Margaret Atwood must contend with so many using it as an analogy or simile. The UK is quite ostensibly nothing like the Republic of Gilead and anyone suggesting as such is unserious - yes that includes you @stellacreasy
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'The Handmaid's Tale was meant to be science-fiction, not a manifesto for a future government!' Although steps towards de-criminalising abortion have been taken, @stellacreasy warns people not to let their guard down, and keep fighting.

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@nonregemesse Kaiser Wilhelm II was actually a well meaning and semi competent leader, not a maniacal mentally unstable warlord.
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No we didn’t. The British abolished slavery in 1807 and then empire wide in 1834. The West Africa Squadron was active from 1808-1868 and freed ~150k slaves. In Ghana, Charles MacCarthy tried to abolish slavery in 1823. It was ended in 1874 after it officially became a colony.
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@BritzerHist And the British themselves continued slavery after that...so what exactly is your point? So its fine when white people do it?

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@boisdulac_ He had a very loving and caring upbringing contrary to what people sometimes think
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"My father was personally infinitely kind, yes, almost tender and soft, he felt heartfelt compassion for everything that had to suffer. He showed himself amiable and friendly in traffic, always in the mood for little jokes and harmless teasing." Kaiser Wilhelm II on his father Kaiser Friedrich III.
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@krmer53387 The first monarch to have his image copyrighted
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I believe the photo was taken at a shoot hosted by Lord Alington on his Crichel Estate in Dorset during the Kaiser’s stay at Highcliffe Castle in 1907.
Mark Hayes@MarkHay55822123

@KaiserW1914_II Remarkable what he achieved effectively with one arm.

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@JOttoPohl1 Thanks for the link. A really interesting article and I agree with you point activist scholars as I have been taught by them at university
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@JOttoPohl1 I’m glad it’s taught at universities. I took a module last year on anti-colonialism which discussed the slave trade, and it mostly left out local tribal involvement.
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@BritzerHist We discussed it extensively during the six years I taught in the history department of the University of Ghana in Legon.
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