British colonial empire thinking they could escape if they just changed the name of what they were doing (Meme source and credits: u/MayankNoob on r/IndianHistoryMemes)

Don’t forget indentured Chinese labourers, those tin mines aren’t going to mine themselves.

Saving this for the Weekly British empire banned slavery post.

Fun fact - when slavery was banned the government promised to pay reparations to slave owners. It took until 2015 for the families of slave owners to get their due compensation. Thats how big of a loss it costed for UK to ban slavery across the empire.

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