Actually Elon, a great many people are mistaken in this belief. The trans-Atlantic system of slavery, dominated by Britons for most of the C18, was unprecedented in its scale, its commercial nature, its demographic effects, its effects in instituting racism, and its catalysing role in Britain’s Industrial Revolution. Upon emancipation it was slave-owners who were compensated rather than the enslaved; new forms of racialised labour exploitation emerged in emancipation’s wake (such as the indenture of a million Indians), and abolition proved quite compatible with entrenched racism and the invasion & occupation of new colonies. Far from ending other, global forms of slavery, British officials often tolerated them in these colonies. For more, perhaps read some of the work of experts rather than polemicists? hurstpublishers.com/book/the…