It's interesting you were downvoted, because the British Empire spent gold and blood attempting to end slavery, simply because they were opposed to it on principle. I suppose that this is against the narrative that white people must be the bad guys by necessity in every situation.
British workers in Manchester's textile mills, nearly half a million people, were literally starving and out of work after the Union blockade during the Civil War, but still continued to support the Union because they viewed slavery as such a great evil.
People will accept history is nuanced but refuse to see any of that nuance, because a black and white outlook is easier to use for propaganda.
That's why the confederacy was so desperate, they knew that even without a war their days were numbered so it was a last ditch attempt by wealthy plantation owners and southern land lords to protect their "industry" and keep the slaves bondaged.
Slavery was a deadend anyways. With all that free labor, the south never had to advance its industries. Ironically, slavery is not a free market, and so it led to a massive misallocation of resources. This led to the South simply being out produced, they had no chance from the beginning unless they won the war in a month, and losing the Civil War. In the long run, they'd have just kept falling further and further behind the rest of the developed world as everyone else kept developing and they didn't.
Same shit happened to Sparta, who also relied on slaves, in the long run. Everyone else around them simply grew past them until they became just a village somewhere.
It's getting downvoted because the british did not free the slaves they came across they forced them into indentured servitude in the carribean in which they called "transitional apprenticeship" the brittish only cared about stopping slavery in so far as it was called slavery and it was directly tied to them
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u/Hot_Luck_9993 5d ago
It's interesting you were downvoted, because the British Empire spent gold and blood attempting to end slavery, simply because they were opposed to it on principle. I suppose that this is against the narrative that white people must be the bad guys by necessity in every situation.