Which colonial empire was "most evil"?

it was "tiny elites" that bankrolled britain at this time, this has always been the case, and was so in Industrialised Britain too, huge conglomerates like the East India company etc were the ones pulling vasts sums of money and or resources into the uk from , largely abroad. Liverpool saw the direct benfits of major slavers being based there, because of its docks, and it was their money that built the city we see today from humble low scale fishing beginnings.Banks were first introduced in Liverpool simply as a way of providing credit to the numerous slavery enterprises operating form the city. As I provided to you the article listing 20-30 grandiouse period buildings funded by contributions from Slavers, an the city showing its gratitude by naming many of its streets after them. The industrial revolution that followed without question was assited by the vast wealths and fortunes the slave trade had previously brought to Britain and specifically the shipping industry in Liverpool. Its almost cringworthy the level to you which you are trying to deny the massive influence slavery had on the british economy and in particular Liverpool at this time, unless you are a habitual slavery denier. and your attempts to suggest that because African slaves were not all unloaded at Liverpool , but instead sent to certain death abroad for profit by the British, this is somehow less morally repugnant? - frankly that's disturbing

Ok, so we are getting somewhere. You finally admit slaves were never brought to Liverpool.

Slavery was a private trade. Please explain how a trade which at its peak provided less than 5% of GDP to the entire british economy can seriously be called a major part of the British economy?

slavery at its peak for the british was in the 16th century, so kindly provide the economic statistics that evidence your above claim. Then identify from all the other major industries Britain had at the time, the ones that slave labour was not used in. you will be lef with a insignificant amount of industry. Again you don't comprehend the simple fact that slavery propped up the british economy massively and in multiple ways. and then I laugh at the ignorance you demonstrate to suggest because not all the british slave ships were unloaded at Liverpool, this in someway exonerates the slaving industry. Laughable

Whats a British slave ship? Slavery was a private enterprise. but, No slave ships were unloaded at Liverpool anyway.

Why are you so personally attached to the idea that slavery was such a major part of British economy? Slavery NEVER propped up the British economy. At its peak it contributed less than 5% of GDP.

Whats a British slave ship? Slavery was a private enterprise. but, No slave ships were unloaded at Liverpool anyway.

Why are you so personally attached to the idea that slavery was such a major part of British economy? Slavery NEVER propped up the British economy. At its peak it contributed less than 5% of GDP.

this has become like arguing with a 5 year old, which im not intending to do anymore. I hope you stop bunking off history class, this a truly embarrassing level of ignorance you have displayed.

this has become like arguing with a 5 year old, which im not intending to do anymore. I hope you stop bunking of history class. -- Ill leave you to your ignorance and with this quote -" Transatlantic Slave Trade. This Slave Trade was the richest part of Britain's trade in the 18th century. James Houston, who worked for a firm of 18th-century slave merchants, wrote, "What a glorious and advantageous trade this is... It is the hinge on which all the trade of this globe moves. ---- -----Between 1750 and 1780, about 70% of the government's total income came from taxes on goods from its colonies. The money made on the Transatlantic Slave Trade triangle was vast and poured into Britain and other European countries involved in slavery, changing their landscapes forever. In Britain, those who had made much of their wealth from the trade built fine mansions, established banks such as the Bank of England and funded new industries"

Tel me. Who really wrote that garbage in the latter part of that post?

apparently. Slavery also invented the Internet! Lol

are you having problems reading? sailors and upper class servants? you are totally deluded now. 90% of slaves carried on british ships ended up in the americas and west indies to work till their deaths on behalf of british industries. slaves weren't 'purchased' from Africa, they were collected by ships out of Liverpool, some were brought back to the uk to be coalated like commodities by the Liverpool slave trading organisations and others were shipped straight from Africa across the atlantic, but the whole process was organised out of the UK with Liverpool as the main staging post for the whole of Europe. And thats how Liverpool became a major british city- from the vast money shipping of slaves brought to Britain

please feel free to continue to make a fool of yourself, but ive said what was needed to say

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