Emma Sysum 💙 🇺🇦🌻 #StandWithUkraine รีทวีตแล้ว
Slavery existed for over 5,000 years.
Every major civilisation accepted it.
For most of history, nobody seriously tried to stop it at scale.
Then Britain did something different.
It didn’t just pass a law.
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In 1807, Britain abolished the slave trade.
Then it enforced it.
For 60 years, the Royal Navy hunted slave ships.
1,600 ships captured.
Around 150,000 people freed.
And it cost lives.
Around 2,000 British sailors died doing it.
Then in 1833:
Britain abolished slavery across its empire.
800,000 people set free.
It paid £20 million to do it. Around 40 percent of government spending.
This wasn’t quick.
This wasn’t easy.
And it didn’t start with politicians.
It started with ordinary people.
Women boycotted sugar.
Hundreds of thousands of them.
Thomas Clarkson rode 35,000 miles to gather evidence.
A movement that took decades.
This is part of British history.
Not perfect.
But not what most people are told either.
Almost no one explains it like this.
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