Comments by "Granny Annie" (@grannyannie2948) on "Britain's Wealth was NOT Built on Slavery u0026 Colonialism" video.

  1.  @TheBelrick  No worries every early settler claims this now.
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  2. ​ @ImCarolB Please see above
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  3. ​ @PeterCombs I don't know that it was bankrupt. Just that parliament didn't give Charles much money.
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  4. ​ @foundationofBritain I thought Catherine's dowry was Algiers, but it didn't benifit Charles due to the Barbary Pirates. I'm sure I've read it in connection to Samuel Pepys.
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  5. I'm Australian and I would say the same thing. I have an Aboriginal ancestor, most are happy to live in modernity.
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  6.  @TheBelrick  Depends what side the bread is buttered.
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  7. ​ @TheBlaqOrder As a British colony, I don't recall Britain profiting from our resources. We traded, but I'm not aware of historic unfair trade deals.
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  8.  @TheBlaqOrder  But India is one of many colonies. The British spent a good deal of money establishing my colony. And it was only after we were established that we had resources. And soon after Queen Victoria made us self governing states. So your model doesn't work for all British colonies
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  9.  @TheBlaqOrder  That's not what happened in my country. We are a first world country with a higher standard of living than Britain.
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  10.  @TheBlaqOrder  I'm not sure that Canada, New Zealand or Australia would agree.
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  11.  @robertewalt7789  The fact is that technology was also effecting agriculture and less farm workers were needed. It wasn't just agricultural people working in the country either. There were spinners and weaver's, and these were the people most effected by factories.
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  12. ​ @Virtus555 And they learnt their lesson. Slavery was outlawed in Australia in 1786, two years before settlement
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  13. Britain found slavery to be on the nose before then. They outlawed slavery in Australia in 1786 two years before it was settled.
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  14.  @DipakBose-ge1hm  What did Bengal have to do with cotton from North America and factories in Britain?
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  15.  @DipakBose-ge1hm  I've never heard that story before. Can you recommend a book?
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  16. ​ @theflamingone8729 Exactly, they carried the debt of the Napoleonic wars as well
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  17. As an Australian we were largely self governing from the early Victorian era. In the very early years Britain sent doctors to tend convicts and guards, but as a largely British population, with some from western Europe and North America, we had the skills to build, roads dams and railways, and train doctors and nurses. As a seventh generation Australian I don't feel my family were ever enslaved.
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  18. As an Australian I agree, though it took a little longer.
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