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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2022-09-11 04:21 pm

[ SECRET POST #5728 ]


⌈ Secret Post #5728 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2022-09-12 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I'm aware of the later history of the fight against enslavement; you haven't got the full details but not far off; dig around a bit more and you'll get them. Look up Jane Austen's brother the Rear-Admiral, for instance.

Sadly about 50m poeple are reckoned to be enslaved today. The fight goes on.

(Anonymous) 2022-09-12 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I just found it odd that you used the earliest possible date relating to the end of slavery in the British Empire, as opposed to the actual end of it. And that you implied something about the timeline of the American Revolution, when a huge part of that was the financial burden imposed by the East India Company's bullshit, which very much involved participation in slavery (obviously not saying America was clean here, given that their independence benefitted from the slave trade as well).

And at any rate, the point is that the Empire itself, and therefore the monarchy that is upheld and celebrated by that Empire, was and still is at fault for several "sins", to use your word. Pointing out the global harm done by the British Empire--again, with a crown topping it off all the way--isn't making a sin-eater of them; it's acknowledging the damage.