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Old 28-12-2015, 08:04 PM #11
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Why don't you try to imagine the plight of poor people in the UK during that time, people who didn't profit at all from the Empire and were in fact living in what was the richest country in the world. A subject often overlooked... And at the same time bear in mind that the period being referred to is well over a hundred years ago and as we know, the past is a different country where things were done differently. Also bear in mind that it was good, decent white people who ended the slave trade because black people had no power at all.

Good luck with replacing all the statues with people from history you consider to be worthy and "good".
I'll just comment on the topic at hand if it's all the same Liv.
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