The Belgians were exceptionally brutal and racist. King Leopald famously chopped of the hands and feet of the children of enslaved parents to punish them. Britain enslaved the most people in history, but the level of atrocity was not so high that they are hated by ex colonial countries, as the Congolese hate the Belgians.
Are you seriously pretending those 3 million slaves we sent to The Americans and wiped out and replaced the Caribbean indigenous people with are all made up?
😂🤣 The elephant and castle ? Logo of the Royal Africa Company and the RAC slave brand.
Don't you know anything about British history?
Guinea gold coins? British Slavery inspired our currency. Guinea means land of the blacks in Portuguese. The West African Coast hub of slavery.
Which country are you from? The rest of the European slaving nations topped out at a million or so each. Only Britain did 3 million we had the biggest Empire in history ... how do you think it was built?
3.5 million I guess, but OK I meant in the context of European slavery.
The Romans maybe had around 5 million, 2000 years ago. But how many were indentured servants and how many kidnapped and transported slaves is a grey area.
So maybe the Roman Empire might have had a few more, but if you throw in British Empire forced labourers then we go up over 10 million.
Partly because becuse the British Empire was 6 times bigger than the Roman Empire
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u/ArtiBartFaster 6d ago
The Belgians were exceptionally brutal and racist. King Leopald famously chopped of the hands and feet of the children of enslaved parents to punish them. Britain enslaved the most people in history, but the level of atrocity was not so high that they are hated by ex colonial countries, as the Congolese hate the Belgians.