Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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27. The UK was against slavery in the US because of economic reasons.

The Royal Navy enforced actions in the Atlantic Ocean against slave ships, not out of compassion or morality, but to hurt the growing US economy.

The UK and Portugal were allies and if their slave ships headed to Brazil (which had slavery until 1882), they were generally unmolested.



Hypocritically, the British Empire had the next best thing to slavery in the form of cheap, caste labor in India, through the East India Company, which they held on to for nearly four centuries. They also exploited cheap labor in China.

Colonel Mustard didn't give a darn about the "coolies," "darkies," or "jolliwogs."






Sources:

https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/countercurrents/2020/09/24/whose-redemption-the-slave-trade-abolition-and-british-interventions-on-the-high-seas/#

https://www.britannica.com/topic/East-India-Company