It was her responsibility as a mother to ensure that Ada didn't turn out like her father;

Fundamentally, the thing that was wrong with Lord Byron is that he was a poet; and

The opposite of poetry is math.

out of all respondants in the united kingdom, only about 1 in 5 know about apprenticeship

apprenticeship was the period right after the slavery abolition act. formerly enslaved people over the age of 6 were required to continue working without pay for 45 hours a week for up to 6 years. this system was ended earlier than originally penned.

out of all respondants from the uk, only about 1 in 5 know what manumission was

manumission was the mechanism through which an enslaved person could buy or earn their freedom. more often than not, at least in the caribbean it was cold hard cash that earned your freedom, and there are numerous accounts of slave owners taking all the money their slaves had saved towards their manumission from them for flimsy reasons to prevent them from buying their freedom.

out of all respondants from the uk, a little more than 1 in 4 know the details of reparations in the slavery abolition act

£20 million in compensation was provided to slave owners, not to slaves. that is the equivalent of over £2 billion today. due to the mechanism by which that compensation was funded, the last of this debt was paid in 2015. in that same year, david cameron spoke in jamaica and refused reparations to the caribbean, urging us to move on.

this is a flawed poll, theres only 2k responses on the most answered one, and the number of respondants is not consistent. theres no guarantee that everyone who did one did both the other two. this is an american centric website, so 85% of respondants were disqualified from the start. but the question then remains:

why dont you, uk citizen, know this?

i learned this in school, i was tested on it, it was taught in mandatory subjects throughout my education. even after i no longer had to do history or social studies, theres another mandatory history module in the second year of our A level equivalent (CAPE).

this is your history too, and most of you dont know it! you need to ask yourself why theyre keeping this from you.

as always, i recommend the work of hillary md beckles. how britain underdeveloped the caribbean and britains black debt. however this year i would like to point you to the repair campaign as well, which is petitioning for reparations from europe (including the uk)

RIP Nigel John Dermot Neill (September 14, 1947 - July 13, 2026) 🕊