You're also the bad guys, the ones who started it.
Hardly. The Romans were over here enslaving us 2000 years earlier. Every major civilisation has had slaves. Every single one. And it was the British who stopped it.
We are talking about chattel slave trade from Africa to North America, which the UK participated in for over 150 years and transported over 3 million slaves to the New World. It's good the UK stopped it but to say...
Slavery is a part of US history. Not British history.
...is completely false and you know that.
Guess who boycotted cheap cotton and demanded fair trade and refused to buy cotton picked by slaves despite their government refusing to abolish slavery?
Just as slavery was ending a few factory workers decided to take a stance against slave cotton, not all of them mind you. So it took almost 50 years after the abolishing of slavery to take a principled stance on slave picked cotton, and that stance was taken by a tiny minority of UK citizens who happened to wield no power? Seems like the UK's morals weren't as strong as you are touting them.
We really were the good guys in all this, and we don't deserve to be painted as the worst slave owning villains of all time.
No one has done that. Stop lying.
The truth is the exact opposite.
Evidently false. The UK kept slaves, exported millions more and was a main buyer of slave picked cotton for the vast majority of the time the industry existed after they abolished slaves.
Trying to minimize the UKs role in this is just a vain attempt to protect your nationalist ego. You would do well to be a true patriot and accept your history so that it's lessons can continue to be soaked in for future generations; we don't want to be doomed to repeat it do we?
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