According to the National Archives this picture shows slavery under the 'evil' British Empire. In fact it depicts the Royal Navy SAVING slaves, as ROBERT HARDMAN explains

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

Here's a bit of genuine history to counter that revisionist nonsense,  Doddery Dodge  :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbirding#In_Australia

Didge wrote:

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

Here's a bit of genuine history to counter that revisionist nonsense,  Doddery Dodge  :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbirding#In_Australia

How is that refuting what has been posted in regards to the Photo?

Come on wetwipe, lets see you post how its revisionist history?

In your own time

In 1862 J. C. Byrne, an Irish speculator, persuaded countrymen to financially back a scheme to bring "colonists" from the New Hebrides to Peru as indentured agricultural workers. The first ship, Adelante, was fitted and on 15 June 1862 set out across the Pacific. Calling in at Tongareva (Penrhyn) in the northern Cook Islands, Byrne found the one island in the Pacific where the population was willing to leave because of a severe coconut famine. He took 253 recruits; by September, they were working in Peru as plantation workers and domestic household servants.

Almost immediately speculators and ship owners fitted out ageing ships that went to Polynesia to bring "willing colonists". From September 1862 to April 1863, no less than 30 ships set out. Because profit was the main motive, many ship captains resorted to dishonest tactics and kidnapping to fill their ships.

Also

In Australia

From the 1860s, the demand for labour in Queensland, Australia, resulted in blackbirding in the region. Queensland was a self-governing British colony in northeastern Australia until 1901, when it became a state of the Commonwealth of Australia. Over a period of 40 years, from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, traders "recruited" Kanaka labourers for the sugar cane fields of Queensland, from the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the Loyalty Islands of New Caledonia as well as Niue. The Queensland government tried to regulate the trade: it required every ship engaged in recruiting labourers from the Pacific islands to carry a person approved by the government to ensure that labourers were willingly recruited and not kidnapped. But, such government observers were often corrupted by bonuses paid for labourers 'recruited,' or blinded by alcohol, and did little or nothing to prevent sea-captains from tricking islanders on-board or otherwise engaging in kidnapping with violence.[11] Joe Melvin, an investigative journalist who, undercover, in 1892 joined the crew of Queensland blackbirding ship Helena, found no instances of intimidation or misrepresentation and concluded that the Islanders recruited did so "willingly and cannily"

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

Didge wrote:


How is that refuting what has been posted in regards to the Photo?

Come on wetwipe, lets see you post how its revisionist history?

In your own time

"Wetwipe",  is it Didge...

How about you pull your slimy head out of HT' and Sly's arses, snd dream up a clever insult for yourself, you lazy unthinking prick..

I call that author of that story  a revisionist, and denialist, bastard  --  simply because that's what he is.

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

Didge and his fellow Tory revisionist/denialist/apologist chums are getting a bit desperate, in the lead-up to Christmas...

Nothing like a bit of feel good faux history to cheer up the peasentry,  whenever their beloved Tories are getting a bit on the nose, and their approval polls are tumbling..

Vintage wrote:Slavery abolished in British Empire in 1833 - photograph dated 1868 - Revisionist? Bit of a stretch to continue trying to beat the British Empire with a pc stick.
To listen to some people Britain was the only empire that ever existed and maybe they should check out the history of slavery before the British Empire became involved and the countries that officially kept the practice up until fairly recently, although it actually still goes on in many places.

Vintage wrote:Slavery abolished in British Empire in 1833 - photograph dated 1868 - Revisionist? Bit of a stretch to continue trying to beat the British Empire with a pc stick.
To listen to some people Britain was the only empire that ever existed and maybe they should check out the history of slavery before the British Empire became involved and the countries that officially kept the practice up until fairly recently, although it actually still goes on in many places.

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

Vintage wrote:Slavery abolished in British Empire in 1833 - photograph dated 1868 - Revisionist? Bit of a stretch to continue trying to beat the British Empire with a pc stick.
To listen to some people Britain was the only empire that ever existed and maybe they should check out the history of slavery before the British Empire became involved and the countries that officially kept the practice up until fairly recently, although it actually still goes on in many places.

Believe the lies, if you like...

The British guvm'nt can spout all the lying bullshit they like..

However :

*  British  companies were still shanghai'ing slaves in tne South Pacific from the 1860s through to end of the 19th century;

*  Slaves from British-funded blackbirding were finally freed after a new anti-slavery law passed after the Federation of Australia in 1901 (see my first reference, above..);

*  Your deliberate bullshit lies are only re-inforcing some of the crap contained  in Dodge's original post.