I am no great supporter of the inflated number of individuals that make up the royal family but the link with them and slavery is bound to be true as everyone was in on it.
It was the dot.com boom or financial deregulation of the time.
Disgusting, but it was then and lets concentrate our energies and efforts on eradicating modern slavery which is just as bad.

Years gone by when the slave trade was abolished slave traders were given a sum of money to give up their slaves, int todays money it made a load of them millionaires.

Modern day slavery exists in most third world countries and probably most of the clothing we wear is manufactured there like wise some electronic gadgets.

The Muslim Arabs traded in black African slaves for over a thousand years. When the Europeans got in on the act it was Arab traders who captured slaves in the interior of Africa and took them to the Europeans' coastal trading posts to sell them.

For that matter, the Arabs on the Barbary Coast traded in Christian slaves they captured in the Mediterranean - over a million Europeans were enslaved by the Barbary pirates between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but AFAIK the Saudis and the Emiratis aren't falling over themselves to apologise and pay reparations to anyone .

Some of us must be descendants from slavery?

A double whammy is having to watch Pools for most of this season.

Met an exiled Carlisle fan on a Cornish beach today. I should have demanded reparation for those seats at The Vic.

I read somewhere recently that the debt the British government took on to pay to end slavery was not fully paid off until 2015. You can argue that the wrong people were paid reparations (owners not slaves) but British tax payers have already paid to abolish slavery.

and how many of that BLM lot were not decended from slaves but from the slavers themselves. funny how they want to re write history to suit them and turn a blind eye on slavery going on today. actually were the average person around over 2 hundred years ago totally free anyway. yes you could legally leave your home and job but more likely this would lead into starvation even in the west, so really the only option was staying put. even those victorian owners like josia salt had his workforce where he wanted em with his housing for workers. tick all his boxes he wanted and you had work, money and a roof over your head. get drunk or even miss church one sunday and you,d be out on the street. for me its a thin line between what our ancestors had to suffer and the slaves but we are more glad to be around now but they just cannot forget the distant past with a sack of king edwards on their shoulder.

I think i heard that some have descendants that recently served a senior politicians in recent times.

[quote="Flying Hogans"]The Muslim Arabs traded in black African slaves for over a thousand years. When the Europeans got in on the act it was Arab traders who captured slaves in the interior of Africa and took them to the Europeans' coastal trading posts to sell them.

For that matter, the Arabs on the Barbary Coast traded in Christian slaves they captured in the Mediterranean - over a million Europeans were enslaved by the Barbary pirates between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but AFAIK the Saudis and the Emiratis aren't falling over themselves to apologise and pay reparations to anyone

Also let us not forget it was the British who where instrumental in getting slavery abolished.

The West Africa Squadron which intercepted ALL foreign slavers and freed them.

Send the buggers back!