Så du tittar på delar av historien genom ett nålsöga?
Slavhandel var som du skriver utbrett i stora delar av Västafrika innan europeer kom dit.
Så här skriver Brittish library om Storbritannien och den transatlantiska slavhandeln. Storbritanniens industrialism och ekonomiska framgång byggde på att de stod för ca hälften av all transatlantisk slavhandel..
www.bl.uk/restoration-18th-century-literature/articles/abolition-of-the-slave-trade-and-slavery-in-britain
'Towards the end of the 18th century, a movement emerged calling for an end to the slave trade and, later, slavery itself. Professor John Oldfield traces the road to abolition from the 1780s to the 1830s, highlighting the impacts of grass-roots organisation, leadership, Black resistance and pro-slavery interests.
Britain?s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade officially began, with royal approval, in 1663. In less than 150 years, Britain was responsible for transporting millions of enslaved Africans to colonies in the Americas, where men, women and children were forced to work on plantations and denied basic rights. This inhumane system led to the emergence of racist ideas and pseudoscience that were used to justify it.
Towards the end of the 18th century, a movement emerged calling for an end to the slave trade and, later, slavery itself. Abolitionism was one of the most successful reform movements of the 18th and 19th centuries. It was also one of the most protracted. It took 20 years to abolish Britain?s involvement in the slave trade and a further 26 years to abolish British colonial slavery in the Caribbean.
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The early British movement differed from its American counterpart in one important respect, however. As its name implied, the SEAST was organised with the declared intention of tackling slavery in the British Caribbean at its source. Namely, the highly lucrative transatlantic slave trade that British merchants and traders had done so much to perfect, being responsible for 50 per cent of all enslaved Africans ? roughly 3.4 million people ? shipped from Africa to the Americas between 1662 and 1807.[3] The wealth derived from this trade not only created large personal fortunes but also provided a stimulus to British industry, not least when it came to the outfitting of ships bound for the west coast of Africa and the processing of colonial products such as sugar, tobacco and cotton. Furthermore, the rise of plantation complexes that depended on enslaved African labour underpinned Britain?s imperialistic expansion in the Americas, at the same time creating important links between economic interests and state power.
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It is a measure of Wilberforce?s commitment to abolition that throughout these turbulent years he went on presenting to Parliament his annual motions against the slave trade. Eventually, the tide began to turn in the abolitionists? favour. Events in the Caribbean, particularly the Saint Domingue slave uprising (1791) and the emergence of Haiti (1804) as an independent Black republic, convinced many MPs that it might be worth sacrificing the slave trade, if by doing so that meant reducing the possibility of further rebellions and therefore preserving Britain?s own slave colonies. As war broke out again in Europe (1804?15), others, both inside and outside Parliament, also began to question the wisdom of supplying enslaved Africans to Britain?s enemies, chief among them France and Spain.
Capitalising on this shift in the geopolitical situation, abolitionists started to chip away at the legal provisions that protected the slave trade. This occurred first through the Foreign Slave Trade Act (1806), which prohibited British slave traders from operating in territories belonging to foreign powers, and then the Slave Trade Abolition Act of March 1807, which abolished Britain?s involvement in the transatlantic slave trade once and for all. It was a momentous decision and one that was also a personal triumph for Wilberforce, as well as the members of the SEAST. But it is worth emphasising that this unfolding drama was set in motion by events in the Caribbean. The final push towards 1807 was also made easier by the knowledge that the USA was about to abolish its own international slave trade, as set out under the terms of the US Constitution. In this sense, the national and the international were always in delicate balance with each other, sometimes colliding, at other times coalescing to effect meaningful political change.
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Wilberforce had hoped that abolition of the slave trade would signal the slow death of slavery, as colonial interests were forced to reform the institution from within. By the early 1820s, however, it was obvious that this policy was not working, largely because of the illegal slave trade but also because of the failure of British diplomatic efforts to internationalise abolition.[11] As a result, in 1823 Wilberforce, Clarkson and others organised the Anti-Slavery Society, or, to give it its full title, the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions. The new organisation signalled a radical new departure in British anti-slavery politics. Yet it is important to note that the society did not demand the immediate overthrow of slavery, merely the adoption of measures designed to ?mitigate? its worst abuses, together with a plan for gradual emancipation leading ultimately (it was not said when) to complete freedom.[12]
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Between 1831 and 1833, the British campaign against slavery in the Caribbean entered its final phase. Two factors were important here. The first was Black resistance and, in particular, the Baptist War in Jamaica (1831?32). This was the latest and largest in a series of slave revolts that raised awkward questions about the long-term viability of slave societies in the British Caribbean, as well as about the brutally oppressive methods used by colonial authorities to suppress the rebellions.[15] The second factor was the Reform Bill of 1832, which not only increased the size of the British electorate but also created 67 new constituencies, among them industrial towns such as Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds.[16] Here was an opportunity for anti-slavery activists to press home their advantage. Adopting many of the techniques developed by the Agency Committee, British abolitionists stepped up their pressure on prospective parliamentary candidates, publicly ?outing? those who represented the West India interest or who supported gradualism. Predictably, Tory newspapers complained about these attempts to ?dictate? to voters. Nevertheless, by harnessing techniques of this kind, anti-slavery activists helped to shape the composition of the First Reformed Parliament and, with it, the drive towards the Emancipation Act of 1833, even if at the final hurdle they were forced to accept significant concessions, chief among them the £20 million granted to slaveholders in compensation for the loss of their ?property?.[17][18]
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After 1833, activists waged a further successful campaign, this time against the so-called ?apprenticeship? system that formed another integral part of the Emancipation Act.[19] By 1838, slavery in the British Caribbean had to all and intents and purposes been abolished. But, in saying this, emancipation proved something of a false dawn. Post-1833 many planters in the Caribbean shifted to rely on indentured Indian and Chinese labourers, an exploitative system that was only finally abandoned in 1920. Meanwhile, the 800,000 or more people emancipated under the 1833 Act were left to eke out an existence for themselves, while at the same time pressing for their civil and political rights, under a constitutional system that still treated them as ?dependents? rather than citizens. In this sense, 1833 or 1838 was no more an ?end? than was 1807, but the start of another protracted struggle for people of African descent, this time towards full independence
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Tom Araya skrev 2023-08-26 23:59:40 följande:
Man ska vara medveten om att slaveri har existerat över hela världen under årtusenden och existerar fortfarande. Västvärlden (främst Storbritannien) var aktivt drivande för ett avskaffande.
Således är det en historieförfalskning att försöka få det till att vita förslavade afrikaner/svarta.
