Daily writing prompt
What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?
Great Britain has a chequered history ranging from the blackest evil to the best and I think that best was the Abolition of Slavery and then the creation of the West Africa Squadron to rescue captured Africans.
The clip above is from the film Amistad (1997) which is a film I can not watch without crying. It is heart breaking but the end of the film shows the West Africa Squadron attacking and destroying a slave fortress which I would argue is the correct and best use of weapons.
Furthermore I have skin in this game because Thomas Clarkson the abolitionist is a relative.
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