The USA seems to have picked up the technique of sanitizing history with happy talk selective (or downright Orwellian) interpretations of events from the English.
47,000 claims were made by slave owners for COMPENSATION when slavery was abolished. Of the 47,000 claims, 3,000 (
which received about HALF of the money total) were "absentee" slave owners living in ENGLAND.
They invested in railroads and other empire building techniques, which built many of the fortunes of the well off families of today.
The sanitizers of history want to bury that bit of two plus two equals 20 millions pounds raised by Rothschild's world class slave owner bailout.
THOSE WHITE PEOPLE became the nucleus of the a significant percentage of the PRESENT RULING CLASS, to the DETRIMENT of the slaves that were freed.
So every time anybody wants to crow about the abolishment of slavery by England, you can set them straight with this video where an excellent historian, armed with integrity and a zeal for historical truth, (
Truthdigger of the Week: History Professor Catherine Hall, Who Rejected Prize From Israel), explains exactly what the reality was, AND IS.