This post was first published at Freenations and we re-publish with the author’s kind permission.
White, far left instigators of racial tensions and street violence in supposed defence of blacks will not admit that it is precisely those they attack (the white Anglo Saxon capitalist world) which has for 200 years been in the vanguard of slavery abolition, legal protection of workers, freedom of contract and social welfare while today slavery is almost exclusively the province of Chinese and North Korean communists, Asian factories (even in Britain) and African countries where labour exploitation, forced labour and slave selling is rife.
The British Empire abolished the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in 1833. The USA abolished slavery in 1865. The modern slave (as in the Leicester clothes factory run by Asians – just revealed in the British press) is paid illegal poverty wages and expected to survive economically in society. The old slaves could of course be bought and sold – but they were fed and accommodated by the owner. So today’s slavery is even worse than the kind which was abolished (at least in the Anglo Saxon world) in the 19th century!
According to the Global Slavery Index:
on any given day in 2016 there were over 3.8 million people living in conditions of modern slavery in China. This estimate does not include figures on organ trafficking.
Among the many manufacturing industries in China …. it was revealed that employees of Chinese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, which produced parts for Apple’s iPhone, were allegedly subjected to exploitative working conditions.
Students from vocational courses are reportedly forced to work in the electronics manufacturing sector under the threat of failing to graduate if they decline. These jobs are disguised as ‘internships’ but are usually simple production line jobs. Such cases of forced labour have been documented in electronics factories supplying major brands such as Apple, Acer, HP, and Sony, among many others.
Of the 183 countries assessed, only 31 have ratified the International Labour office’s 2014 Forced Labour Protocol. Forty-seven countries have not criminalised human trafficking in accordance with the definitions outlined in the UN Trafficking Protocol; a further 96 countries have not criminalised forced labour, and 133 have not criminalised forced marriage
The Global Slavery Index lists the 10 countries taking the least action to respond to modern slavery:
1. North Korea
2. Eritrea
3. Libya
4. Iran
5. Equatorial Guinea
6. Burundi
7. Democratic Republic of the Congo
8. Congo
9. Russia
10. Somalia
The 10 countries taking the most action against modern slavery.
1. The United Kingdom
2. The Netherlands
3. The United States
4. Portugal
5. Sweden
6. Argentina
7. Belgium
8. Spain
9. Croatia
10. Australia
Some of the worst examples of slavery are in Libya where the International Organisation for Migration says that it had documented reports of ‘slave markets’ along the migrant routes in North Africa “tormenting hundreds of young African men bound for Libya. There they become commodities to be bought, sold and discarded when they have no more value,” said a spokesman. A video (CNN) showing a slave auction where men are sold for $400:
““Does anybody need a digger? This is a digger, a big strong man, he’ll dig,” said an auctioneer, according to CNN. “What am I bid, what am I bid?”
Thanks to the grotesque policies of Merkel’s Germany and Sweden these poor Africans were led to believe they could go to Europe but were then trapped as slave fodder in Libya. Well done Angela Merkel!
But while Middle East and African countries do nothing about slavery the British and Americans lead the world in fighting slavery – not what the mass media with their BLM/ANTIFA obsessions want to reveal! Eight of the 10 worst countries for slavery are in Africa. All the 10 countries doing the most to fight slavery are white.
A former Royal Navy officer of 22 years standing wrote on an MP’s website recently:
Many of my patrols, based in the Arabian Gulf and Indian Ocean, focused on drug running, enforcing the oil embargo as well as other peace keeping duties. One of the tasks we performed that I never expected to, was countering the traffic in human cargo. Yes, modern day slavery. We would encounter slave traders operating between Yemen, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, North Africa and other places. Occasionally the slavers would attempt to flee by shooting the slaves and pushing them overboard thereby forcing us to stop and pick them up. Fortunately our Royal Marines were better shots and they rarely got away. Modern day slavery exists. We are one of the few countries doing something about it.
Peter Worsley has reminded me of the 19th century role of the Royal Navy in combatting the slave trade, chronicled in Capt. Bernard Edwards’ book “The Royal Navy versus the Slave traders” between 1808 and 1898.
It is all the more disgraceful that there is slavery in the UK today. It is the habit of immigrant employers of other immigrants (often illegals who dare not complain). In Leicester clothing labourers have been employed at between £3 and £4 an hour (legal minimum for over 25s is £9) and were kept working throughout the COVID-19 lockdown. This became generally known in June but in January Andrew Bridgen (MP for North West Leicestershire) asked a Business Energy & Industrial Strategy minister;
“Will the Minister agree to meet me to discuss the situation in Leicester, where I believe that approximately 10,000 people in the clothing industry are being paid £3 to £4 an hour in conditions of modern slavery?”
Doubtless – as in the sex gangs cases – political racial correctness prevented a rigorous investigation so now that illegality has been compounded by the resurgence of COVID-19 in Leicester – the close working in such factories being classic Coronavirus sources.
The Slave Trade Act 1807 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prohibiting the slave trade in the British Empire and in 1833 slavery itself was abolished by Act of Parliament. As the journalist Kathy Gyngell noted, it was in 1792 that William Pitt urged the abolition of this ‘abominable trade’.
The abolition of slaves in the British Empire logically led (as it had not in the USA) to the compensating of slave owners who had, before the Act came into force, been engaged in a legitimate trade. Praise for the British laws came from all over the civilised world. John Philpot Curran, an Irish Nationalist, wrote:
“No matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery the moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain the altar and the God sink together into the dust and he stands redeemed regenerated and disenththralled by the irresistible genius of universal emancipation”
In America, describing in ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ the escape to Canada of American slaves, Harriet Beecher Stow wrote:
“Hours fleeted and at last clear and full rose the blessed English shores charmed by a mighty spell with one touch to dissolve every incantation of slavery”
We British have much to be proud of in the history of the abolition of slavery – and our continued fight against it today. No far left, violent exploiters of racial tensions (now so roundly condemned by Blacks on both sides of the Atlantic) dare look at the facts.
PS
It was a supreme irony that while the Wells Fargo Bank (along with 269 other multinationals) signed up to support the extremist BLM, that organisation’s supporters were destroying one of the bank’s properties! Of course – BLM hates Jews and capitalism, and wishes to defund the police. No wonder no one was around to protect Wells Fargo!
Thank you for your excellent article Rodney.
Thank you Rodney Atkinson, for a balanced view of Slavery. – In the 18th century, slavery was at the back of sugar and other business ventures. – Then, starting with William Pitt, the very notion of slavery became an unacceptable evil, and eventually Parliament took action. – They did not just rest upon making it illegal, but empowered our Navy to stop and search any vessel that the Captain deemed to be implicated in this trade. – In those days, this Nation was all powerful and used its power to good effect. – This is why I am surprised at the evident ignorance being shown today, by the rise of BLM in this Nation, which appears to be an import from an action in the USA ! ….. I see this as an act of life saving, but the one who saved a life, is then attacked by the onlookers ! – We are passing through a period of total ignorance of facts, leading to perversion of truth !
The left & media NEVER mention the truth: Muslim Arabs were the greatest enslavers over the past millennium & continue to be a major factor in slavery to this day.
Nor is it ever mentioned that Africans themselves were both enslavers & supplied millions of slaves to both the Arabs & for transporting to the colonies.
It’s estimated that Arab Muslim slavers took more than a million slaves from coastal parts of Europe (including the UK), yet once again, we hear nothing but silence.
Anti white racism is increasing rapidly, fomented by the radical left & so-called “liberals” (who are anything but).
Excellent. Thank you Rodney Atkinson.
The BBC on slavery. As usual some weird ideas.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/07/bbc-enthuses-on-how-islam-moderated-slavery-and-treated-slaves-as-human-beings?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_2020_07_12_jihad_watch_daily_digest&utm_term=2020-07-12
This article touches on something else I feel strongly about. Here we see that slavery was the ancient system where one sold oneself to an employer instead of the modern system where (in most of the world) one rents oneself to an employer and in theory at least, can resign and move to (perhaps!) greener pastures.
We also see a strong tendency for this ancient precursor of modern employment to find its way back into the modern world.
I see a parallel to this. Feudalism.
Feudalism was a system where the king (or occasionally the Queen) owned the land and everything on it by force of arms. In much of the modern world, especially in the remnants of the British Empire, feudalism has been replaced by democracy, a system where the ordinary citizen is able, in theory at least, to force the current people’s employees, the politicians in government, to move on and be replaced by (perhaps!) better politicians.
We also see a strong tendency for the ancient precursor of modern democracy to find it’s way back into the modern world.
Of course they don’t call it feudalism!
Crafty crooks like Karl Marx, Lenin et al were far to astute to make a mistake like that. Instead they began taking over the world armed with slogans like “Shirkers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your brains!” (I speak from memory and I’m getting on.)
That is why the ‘left’ i.e. the communists, humanists, Marxists, socialists, etc. etc. etc ad nauseum (and yes they are nauseating) are Hell-bent on tearing down statues, renaming streets, rewriting history taught in schools and doing all that they can to destroy history and people’s memories, often in the final stages literally, by killing them (Pol Pot).
They want people to think they’re doing something new. The last thing they want is for people to realise that they are simply trying to reintroduce the feudal system which is almost identical in structure to a typical, run-of-the-mill, large Mafia-style criminal gang.
And to all the feminists out there. Go online and look at images of the Chinese Communist Party politburo, then count the women in the photograph.
And, oh yes, as mentioned in the article,
in this brave ‘new’ world they hope to impose on us, slavery would fit right in!
Michael, I do not know which “Humanists” you had in mind, but “Humanists UK” would not like being linked with communists, Marxists nor socialists, and do not deserve to be.
Well written article, thank you Rodney, having just arrived back in England from incarceration in permanent lock up land, I had not heard about the state of affairs in Leicester – unfortunately it doesn’t surprise me.
I will be interested to see how the authorities pursue this matter – probably fat chance; swept under the carpet like Rotherham
Further shame on this nation – we must get rid of the 1995 Barcelona Declaration and the Marrakesh agreement on the first of January 2021