Exactly, we paid to free them and expended military resources trying to prevent other countries that didn’t progress as fast as us (including black majority African nations it should be added) from continuing. I was paying for this out of my taxes until tue other year despite not being born until 1986 and having no family wealth from the trade. I’d say we’ve done and spent enough at this point. Take it up with the Spanish, Dutch or even the original African nations that sold them to begin with.
The British Government paid British slaveowners. The British government could have made ownership of slavery illegal without paying the slaveowners, but they chose to pay the slaveowners. None of that has anything to with reparations to the enslaved people. Also worth noting that in this case, Barbadians were enslaved by the British, not the Spanish or Dutch
Britian “paid” to free slaves by paying slaveowners, not by paying reparations. “what [you]’ve already spent” means nothing here.
Exactly, we paid to free them and expended military resources trying to prevent other countries that didn’t progress as fast as us (including black majority African nations it should be added) from continuing. I was paying for this out of my taxes until tue other year despite not being born until 1986 and having no family wealth from the trade. I’d say we’ve done and spent enough at this point. Take it up with the Spanish, Dutch or even the original African nations that sold them to begin with.
The British Government paid British slaveowners. The British government could have made ownership of slavery illegal without paying the slaveowners, but they chose to pay the slaveowners. None of that has anything to with reparations to the enslaved people. Also worth noting that in this case, Barbadians were enslaved by the British, not the Spanish or Dutch
Better that than a massive civil war that left the country divided to today like the Yanks dealt with it.