Unless you count the fact that White, Christian Britain was the First Nation in thousands of years of human existence since Creation to not only question human slavery but to take meaningful action against it, abolishing the Slave Trade throughout the entire Empire in 1807 and banning all slavery, period in 1833 throughout its Empire. It then went through Africa in its colonising expeditions liberating more humane tribes from the savagery of cannibals and slave-driving tribes who oppressed them, hunting down and putting to justice slave traders across the continent and doing everything in its power to advance natural rights in Africa. Millions upon millions of human beings were liberated from slavery because of White Christian Great Britain, and would still be languishing in it had the anti-colonialists won their wars against Britain. In addition to this Britain advanced free trade and free institutions, education, roads, Christianity, and many incalculable assets in its colonies. It abolished barbaric and savage practices in the Indian Subcontinent such as widow-burning, wherein widows would be quite literally burned alive before an audience of gleeful spectators to die in the most barbarous and humiliating way; and also kept the fragile peace between sparring religious in the Indian Subcontinent from murdering each other. When it disastrously granted "India" independence in 1946, millions of these heated zealots would murder each other – and even now we see the results of religious persecutions since Britain's humane rule ended. You better thank your lucky stars (or better yet come around and thank God) for the Empire, because it quite literally saved human civilisation itself from the evils of Nazism in World War II, in addition to saving Europe from Napoleon's Evil Regime. You would be, if alive at all, a subject of the Third Reich if not for the British Empire. While it did have it faults (It was at fault in our war of independence), which I do not deny, the British Empire was incontestably a good thing on balance. It brought humanity and civilisation to uneducated peoples across the world. It advanced freedom and dignity across the globe and banished the most horrible Tyrannies from the face of the earth.
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For starters, that was Haiti, which abolished the trade of slaves and slavery in its country in 1804. 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 pract… 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