I’ve been thinking a lot about slavery, annoyed at the automatic association with black people and their claim of sensitivity on the matter - especially their claim for reparations. It’s mostly bullshit.

So I’ve put together a list of facts to alleviate any white guilt that might still be lingering over slavery:

1. The word “slave” is derived from the ethnic term “Slav”, white Europeans who were earlier the most common slaves.
   
2. The only place where slavery still openly exists in its brutal ancient form, is AFRICA.
   
3. More whites were enslaved in North Africa than blacks were ever taken to North America.
   
4. The first recorded slave owner in America was a BLACK MAN.
   
5. In 1830 there were around 3,775 BLACK slave owners in America owning approximately 12,740 slaves.
   
6. Native Americans owned thousands of slaves.
   
7. Slavery was universal, practised on every inhabited continent, not a British or American invention.
   
8. Brutal black on black slavery was common in Africa for thousands of years.
   
9. Most slaves brought to America from Africa were purchased from black slave owners.
   
10. White peoples were the first recorded to outlaw slavery.
    
11. No country spent or did more to end slavery than Britain, using 40% of our national budget to free ALL slaves in our empire, and our Navy, the greatest in the world, to police and enforce a ban on slave trading.
    
12. England within the United Kingdom never allowed Black slavery, the Lord Chief Justice ruling that: "as soon as a Negro comes into England, he becomes free. One may be a villein in England, but not a slave."