There were three goals to the Age of Empires:
Expand
Enslave
Exterminate
The British Empire’s goal was to Expand – not to Enslave. Not to Exterminate. Slavery in the first half of its existence was a tool used to Expand. This is in stark contrast to other empires who were there to Enslave and Exterminate simply for the sake of it.
The British Empire did not kill for the sake of it. What are two of the main attacks the British Empire receives from the modern world?
The Boer Concentration Camps from 1899 and the Indian Famine of 1943.
BOTH of these took place during WAR.
It does not detract from the awful suffering of those who were caught in the crossfire. But these concentration camps were not designed to kill people based on ethnicity, religious background or political belief. They were originally set up to provide refuge for refugees who had to flee the war. They were then used by the British to break the guerilla campaign, which led to using civilians as a method to win the war.
As horrifying as this sounds to the modern-day person who has been lucky enough never to experience the horrors of war, this is what is sometimes necessary in war. Innocents get killed. That is war.
Then there is the Indian Famine. Again – it happened during a war, World War II. Churchill got all the blame for this, but the reality was that it was Indian Merchants who hoarded food which led to the starvation of so many people. Churchill had a war to fight and a dictator to stop. Famines had been going on in India for hundreds of years, yet the modern-day person zooms in on this famine, pointing the finger squarely at Churchill, despite the fact there was a war on and despite the fact corrupt merchants hoarded everything.
Then of course we come to slavery which, again, was normal for the time, which every empire engaged in, and where white people suffered as slaves as well as black people. There was only one empire that took the initiative to put an end to slavery and it was the British Empire, spending much of its wealth and resources to end it, and losing roughly 17,000 lives in the Royal Navy in the process.
As empires go, Britain’s did pretty well and this is evident by our Commonwealth of Nations which still look to the Queen as Head of State. God forbid a movement should arise that attacks any of the other empires, because there would be far more to go on and far worse atrocities to write about.
The reason I am so passionate about defending the British Empire is because it is a grave injustice to the amount of good it achieved in this world to simply allow modern so-called progressives to trash it, nitpicking at whatever they possibly can just to implement their agenda. It is an insult to the many who died while representing the British Empire, whether it was the servicemen of the Royal Navy or the men and women of World War II, just to allow this agenda to slip through unchallenged. This is an unforgivable insult and not one we can turn a blind eye to.
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