Today Is...International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

If you remember anything from history class, you know the British Empire was a great time for us Brits to sail into a foreign land, look around and say 'Nice country you got here, we'll take it and make your people slaves'.
Quite unreasonably some people didn't particularity like that and tried to resist but a musket to the face soon made them a lot more compliant to get aboard the ships heading towards the New World.
While a few British Members of Parliament are famously mentioned for ending the Slave Trade, Britain is never rightly given the credit for not only starting it but also profiting immensely from it and sometimes a debate kicks off over whether we should say sorry or not for our part in the slave trade. Before us Brits get carried away with all the back slapping and choruses of what jolly good fellows we are over the abolition of slavery, maybe we should stand down off the moral high ground that we seem to have clambered upon and revisit our behaviour those centuries years ago.

52% Percentage of slaves our ships carried taken from Africa.
204 Ships that left England to carry slaves from Africa to the Americas, four ships a week on average.
11m Enslaved people loaded onto transatlantic ships in Africa.
9.6m Enslaved people who survived the voyage to the Americas.
8,300 Voyages made by British ships.
2.2m Slaves taken to the British West Indies.
670,000 Slaves surviving in the region at the time of emancipation in 1838.
34% Slaves that died within three years of arriving in the Caribbean.
1772 Year slavery was banned in Britain itself.
1838 Year Britain banned Slavery in it's empire. 66 years later.
800,000 Slaves throughout the British empire who received their freedom.
£20m Amount plantation owners received as compensation for the loss of their slaves.
£0.00 Amount former slaves received.

The Star Spangled Banner with it's line 'The Land Of The Free' did not become the official national Anthem of America until 1931 which is fortunate for 12 US Presidents who dodged criticism of hypocrisy at the time for owning very much not free slaves.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant all owned slaves and 4 of them Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Ulysses S. Grant's have their faces on the nations money, at least us Brits only built statues to our slave traders.