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Published Date: 26 March 2007
COMMUNITIES minister Rhona Brankin praised the Scots who helped end the slave trade in Britain, after taking part in a march in Musselburgh to mark the 200th anniversary of its abolition.
Ms Brankin joined church leaders and politicians in a walk from the town centre to Inveresk Lodge, the former home of plantation owner James Wedderburn.

Ms Brankin praised the courage of those who helped bring about the abolition of slavery. She said: "Many of those were Scots, and 200 years on from the passing of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, we should remember the vital contribution they made."



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  • Last Updated: 26 March 2007 9:09 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Abolition of Slavery
 
1

Paddi,

26/03/2007 11:55:46

We're all against slavery, but please lets not apologise for something which no one alive had anything to do with. These displays of angst for things which happened 100's of years ago help no one.

Otherwise, I'm putting in for a compensation claim with the Italian government, after all, apart from, the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, public health and peace, what did 300 years of being under the Roman yolk ever do for us??

2

paul the binman,

26/03/2007 12:33:48

The legal system,lets face it ,only the Romans could control all those warring "nedites"

3

iRoy,

26/03/2007 13:58:05

There are more slaves on British soil now than were two hundred years ago.

4

Douglas,

Bathgate 26/03/2007 17:55:41

There's no f in apologies

5

Douglas,

Bathgate 26/03/2007 17:56:47

but there was a q in Tesco today

6

Tatiana,

edinburgh 26/03/2007 18:05:17

And there was a B in Horrible Cankers bonnet.

7

Joseph Gibson,

Ayrshire 26/03/2007 21:17:52

If any British politician goes ahead with this, don't bother accepting yourself apart of our glorious empire. Don't expect my vote either. And get out of the UK.

If this continue's I can see civil discorder here in the UK rising far beyond control. There is no way inhell I'm going to disrespect our ancestors. If it were not for them, we would probably not be here and even have what we have today.

Don't bother trying to get lots of money to help decendants of the slave trade either, they are better off than their own ancestors or go back to your country. Appreciate our way of life or get the **** out!

8

I'm no really here,

26/03/2007 22:42:56

We didn't abolish it, we just turned a blind eye to it. There is a larger more thriving Slave Trade in Britain now than there was 200 years ago.

9

EnEm,

27/03/2007 02:28:49

#s 4 & 10 aren't wrong.

Slavery was never abolished; it was nationalized.


 

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