Comments by "Steph Foxwell" (@stephfoxwell4620) on "Should the UK pay slavery reparations - 'We simply cannot afford to!'" video.

  1. Will the SNP compensate Gaelic speaking Highlanders for the Highland Clearances of 1750-1830?
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  2. Of course we shouldn't. It is a patently absurd suggestion to offer money to people who have nothing to do with something that was done and dusted almost 200 years ago. The last people subject to British slavery died in the 19th century. Nobody alive ever even met or knew one.
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  3. We already gave them Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad,the Caymans, Guyana, Grenada, Antigua, the Virgin Islands..... They in turn did not give them back to the Taino or Arawak Indians.
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  4. Portugal was slave trading from 1440 til 1860. They transported twice as many slaves as the British ever did.
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  5. Why? It was done by Scottish Aristocrats using German mercenaries.
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  6. No the debt was converted to gilts in 1915. Effectively paid off over 100 years ago.
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  7. Wilberforce started in 1781. 242 years ago. That is eight or nine generations.
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  8. Cornwall needs reparations for the brutal suppression of its culture and language after the 1549 Prayer Book . Rebellion . 4,000 Cornishmen were slaughtered. One in six.
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  9. You have David Olusoga to look forward to on the Coronation coverage.
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  10. What are your fondest memories of him and how did you live to be 150?
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  11. The slaves were owned privately by about 4,000 families.
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