It is unfortunate that the British participated in the slave trade, in fact it was plain wrong for them to do so, however please don't blame the British for the whole thing, the biggest perpetrators were the Portuguese, this fact doesn't mean that the Portuguese were to blame either, most of the western world had a hand in the spread of slaves from Africa to the Americas, and I can honestly say that we were wrong to do so.
All that being said the British stopped this heinous trade in 1807 and banned slavery in 1833, however it was not until 1865 that the US abolished slavery.
One point I would like to make is that at the start of his tirade Mr Grasse says “modern Britain likes to look down it's collective nose at America's history of slavery and segregation”, well I have to say that segregation is a very separate issue. Enforced segregation never happened in Britain, as we all know it unfortunately did happen in the US, and if the British look down their “collective noses” at you in the States then I have to say, good, you deserve it, you should rightly feel ashamed.
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