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2018-11-07 Britain

Prince Charles acknowledges UK’s ‘appalling’ role in slave trade

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Posted by Fred 2018-11-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 So?

Posted by Slolutle Cloluse3142 2018-11-07 06:33|| 2018-11-07 06:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Britain's biggest rent-seeker talks about historical slavery!

The self-delusion would be painful to anyone with a working brain.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-11-07 07:15|| 2018-11-07 07:15|| Front Page Top

#3 The Royal Navy established the West Africa Squadron at substantial expense in 1808 after Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act of 1807. The squadron's task was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of West Africa.[1] With a home base at Portsmouth,[2] it began with two small ships, the 32-gun fifth-rate frigate HMS Solebay and the Cruizer-class brig-sloop HMS Derwent. At the height of its operations, the squadron employed a sixth of the Royal Navy fleet and marines. In 1819 the Royal Navy established a West Coast of Africa Station and the West Africa Squadron became known as the (Preventative Squadron) [3] it remained an independent command until 1856 and then again 1866 to 1867.

Between 1808 and 1860 the West Africa Squadron captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans.[1]

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-11-07 07:18|| 2018-11-07 07:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Stonehenge was produced by a culture that left no written records. Perhaps the same fate will befall this feckless bugger. Hope springs eternal.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-11-07 07:20|| 2018-11-07 07:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Bloody Germans.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-11-07 07:25|| 2018-11-07 07:25|| Front Page Top

#6 ..for those historically challenged. Charles belongs to the House of Windsor which assumed that name during the Great War (1914-18) prior to which they were the House of Hanover. When Queen Anne of last line of Stuarts died, the English picked up Georg Ludwig, ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover). George was Anne's closest living Protestant relative. Tangential note - even though they were of the House of Hanover, when Victoria ascended to the throne in UK, the Salic law applied in Hanover which precluded a female heir and a male, Ernst August, became king.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-11-07 08:02|| 2018-11-07 08:02|| Front Page Top

#7 But you simply cannot beat the beer or the scenery.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-11-07 08:04|| 2018-11-07 08:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Long live the Queen, so that the UK and the rest of us don't have to put up with this tool for so long.

Posted by warthogswife 2018-11-07 10:49|| 2018-11-07 10:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Prince Charles acknowledges UK’s ‘appalling’ role in slave trade

That was then. Different times. We changed our minds. We paid in blood. We got past it. Except for some who like to take advantage of it. Begone.

Now go put on a hair shirt and never take it off if you feel so bad. And will your estate to some people whose 4*great grandparents were slaves.

Posted by gorb 2018-11-07 13:48|| 2018-11-07 13:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Meanwhile in real history, the Islamic Slave Raids of Ireland and Britain. NB - the Barbary pirates were from Africa. I'm sure it was more fun doing it to others and they doing it to you.

Now if you really want to apologize, you might start with the Chinese and the Opium Wars.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-11-07 16:34|| 2018-11-07 16:34|| Front Page Top

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