As Britain prepares to officially crown its first monarch over 70 years in a lavish ceremony Saturday, some citizens in its former and current territories are calling on King Charles III to publicly acknowledge the United Kingdom’s role in the atrocities against enslaved Africans and its oppression of indigenous people.
Has Africa publicly acknowledged its role? Has the Caribbean nations acknowledged their role in slavery and that it took England and the US to end their own slave practices?
Well under that logic then the majority of the United States never engaged in slavery, including California who is demanding 1.2 million for each black person despite California never being a slave state. Eswatini was also Swaziland who didn’t ban slavery until… 2005
Has Africa publicly acknowledged its role? Has the Caribbean nations acknowledged their role in slavery and that it took England and the US to end their own slave practices?
Can you name a country in Africa that didn’t engage in slavery?
There is a way, just pick one that only recently began to exist. Eswatini?
Well under that logic then the majority of the United States never engaged in slavery, including California who is demanding 1.2 million for each black person despite California never being a slave state. Eswatini was also Swaziland who didn’t ban slavery until… 2005