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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

The slave trade was a larger part of American history, and played a central role in their civil war. While some Brits did have slaves, it wasn't as much of "a thing" in Britain and wasn't tied into our history, i.e. in the same way it was involved in their war. You can't teach about the American Civil War without bringing slavery into it.

But it wasn't an integral part of our history, unless we're counting when virtually everyone in the British Isles were the slaves of the Romans

Right and as proven today, we can’t teach about the success of some major British cities without discussing the slave trade either, so why not teach about it?

If we want to move forward and have people understand the history of British racism and oppression, we can’t continue to hide away from out historic atrocities, teaching people that Churchill was nothing more than a hero, is intellectually incorrect and that’s just for starters, we shouldn’t be hiding our past.