Black Panelist STUNNED When Told Africans Sold Their Own to Europeans — “That Can’t Be Denied!”

What is happening guys? Welcome back to the channel. Thank you for joining me today. We're going to get into this video um about uh slavery. There it's just come up again because King Charles is is going to uh the Caribbean countries and they are wanting an apology. So then that can start the

process of reparations. But I just want to talk to you um about slavery and some facts that often get left out in modern conversations. So first of all, we know that slavery was horrific. There is no getting around that. Uh men and women were treated as property and they were denied their freedom, which is absolutely disgusting.

Everybody agrees with that. But here's something important. We shouldn't talk about history as though every white British person owned slaves because they did not. Britain had millions of ordinary working people. They had laborers, they had miners, they had factory workers, they had servants, they had uh men and women living on the poverty line constantly. And meanwhile,

the wealth was generated by slavery. It was concentrated heavily among plantation owners, merchants, and other businesses connected to slavery and the economy. So, simply saying that white people benefited hides enormous differences between rich slave owners and ordinary British families. And always remember as well the work that the slaves did took work away from the

working class which were very very poor at the time. Now we know that we've just received paying the compensation package slave owners families uh but that money came from the British government and it ultimately represented a huge public financial commitment. So ordinary taxpayers who had never owned plantation or enslaved a person, they were part of