Crimes of "Great" Britain In the east: Sir William Joyson Hicks, Britains home secretary in 1928 said: "we did not conquer India for the benefit of the Indians. i know it is said at missionary meetings that we conquered India to raise the levels of the Indians. that is untrue. we conquered India as an outlet for the good of great Britain. we conquered India by the sword and by the sword we hold it." "we went into India to exploit her wealth. we succeeded to the extent of impoverishing her, making starved, unhappy and uneducated. we have sucked the blood from her veins and scored the flesh from her bones. the state of India is a crime." in the west: Americana explains: "the slaves had formed a vital element of that system. indeed historical research supports a figure of nearly 9.6 million Africans who were introduced into Europe and the new world as slaves between 1510, when the demand began to be felt in the Antilles, and in 1870, when the last slaves were brought to the Americas. of this total, the British north America colonies, which in 1776 declared themselves to be the united states of America, imported approximately 427, 000, or 4.5% of this number, all but about 50 thousand arrived before the legal abolition of the English slave trade in 1808. the Caribbean island received slightly more than 4 million slaves, or 43% of the total, while Brazil accounted for 3,647,000 or 38%. a case of trading humans.
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