Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "Ambitions and Conquests: The Story of Europe, Part 3 | Full Historical Documentary" video.

  1. Nonsense, his Anglo prejudice shows by telling the story of slavery through the Dutch, while Britain got rich from colonial crime and slavery. The Dutch didn't join the transatlantic slavetrade until 1637 and already were filthy rich from dominating all European trade. They were huge in the fair trade and tiny in the unfair trade and the slave trade. The British were huge in the slave trade and unfair trade, and incompetent in the fair trade in Europe.
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  2. He gives Britain an almost free pass on the slave trade too by projecting it on the Dutch Republic, while getting almost all his facts about the Dutch Republic wrong.
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  3. Belgium is and was catholic. The Netherlands was multireligious and was not really involved in the exploitation of Africa. Portugal was huge in Africa, Spain, catholic also, was huge in the Caribbean. So you are talking nonsense.
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  4. Especially the Dutch Republic got wealthy from fair European trade and was both late and very small in the slave trade, and all these 'facts' are wrong, because this British guy can't face his country's own far worse history, so he falsely hangs it on the Dutch.
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