Why does the royal family?

Question

not apologise for Queen Elizabeth I (their ancestor) who ordered to get africans to this country to enslave them! How can anyone not be horrified about putting thousands of people into a ship, tering them away from their families, torturing and taunting them, and keeping their descendants as slaves for 600 years

Apologising now would at least help the descendents of the slaves, how would you like your great grandad to be chained up sent to the other side of the world and made a slave!

To "klbblk", I know that my ancestors weren't involved because they were black and Elizabeth I made them slaves!

Answer 1

Actually our late queen, and I'm wondering why your mad at someone who has been dead for almost 600 years, did not directly order This she gave ships to the people who were...starting the slave trade

I hope everyone knows what he is talking about...

A PROTESTER interrupted the church service to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade yesterday to demand an apology from the Queen and Tony Blair, the Prime Minister.

Toyin Agbetu sparked a security scare when he jumped up from his seat in the congregation and ran in front of the altar at Westminster Abbey.

Standing around 10ft from the Queen, he shouted: "You should be ashamed. This is an insult to us."

Mr Agbetu, 39, a member of human rights group Ligali, brought the proceedings to a halt as plain-clothes security guards and two abbey staff attempted to control him.

More than 2,000 people, including Mr Blair, the Queen, Prince Philip, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Gordon Brown, the Chancellor, and John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, were in the abbey for the national commemorations.

Mr Agbetu, who had a ticket for the event, shouted: "You don't have the decency, Mr Blair, to make an apology and the word sorry, and you, the Queen ..."

He then called on members of the congregation to leave in protest. After several minutes, he was escorted outside to the Dean's Yard where he was handcuffed, arrested under Section 5 of the Public Order Act and taken to the Charing Cross police station.

One onlooker, Henry Bonsu, said: "The Queen was unruffled but looked interested."

The service - to mark the bicentenary of the 1807 Act of Parliament abolishing the trade in slaves throughout the British Empire - continued after Mr Agbetu was removed.

- if any thing your people should apologies for the fool who intrrupted a church sermon

Answer 2

Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, which by my maths was a little over 400 years ago. If the descendants of the people enslaved during her reign were kept as slaves for 600 years that means they've still got another 200 years to go before the slave trade ends. As the slave trade in Britain was banned 200 years ago, I'd say you were about 400 years out. Sorry for being pedantic, but it's irritating when people don't try and get their facts at least close to the truth!

Answer 3

Africans did most of it to themselves. Do think for a minute that a bunch of white guys landed in Africa and just rounded up some tribesmen? It was their own people who sold them out! They were either prisoners of war or captured by their own people to be sold for a price. If this is the way that it should be that I think my family is owed an apology from Queen Elizabeth because of the American Revolution. My ancestors land was taken away and burned by her ancestors because all they wanted was freedom and no taxation without representation, which left them penniless and homeless. Should the Norwegians, the Danes, the Swedes, the Mongolians, the Arabs, the Egyptians, the Greeks and all other people with marauding ancestors apologize for their part in enslaving people too? Because that is what they did when they invaded and conquered a land. Where will it end? No matter how PC it is, we cannot be held responsible for what our ancestors did, good or bad. That's just the way it is.

Answer 4

well things have changed a little since then, given Elizabeth 1st was the ruler many many moons ago.

and the british did there bit to bring it to an end it all, if the guy hadnt slavery as it was back then would probably still exist.

Unfortunatley slavery of various forms still exist today and some of it will be almost impossible to stop.

As its been a while since the offical end of slavary theres nothing to say an apology of sorts were made by the reigning monarch or the majesties goverment when it was ended.


Time to move on and look at todays issues rather than those from so long ago, whilst I cant prove an apology was made I am sure it would have been as its standard practice in this type of situation

Answer 5

Why should the Queen do this?

If you had bothered to research your history, you would know that she didnt actually order slavery, it happened to be during her reign and also happened to be started off by one of her most famous suitors, Sir Francis Drake in collaberation with John Hawkins who made the first slave trading voyage to America in 1562.

Ask their families for an appology.

By the way that the first slaves were used by (In order) Ancient Egypt, the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, Greece, Rome, parts of the Roman Empire and the Islamic Caliphate and also the Vikings not to mention the native Britons that were also enslaved by their masters.

Please research your history before asking stupid questions.

Remember prior to the 16th century, the bulk of slaves exported from Africa were shipped from East Africa to the Arabian peninsula and Zanzibar became a leading port in this trade.

So why blame the English?

Answer 6

"How would you like your great grandad to be chained up sent to the other side of the world and made a slave?", you ask. It would not make one jot of difference to my everyday life. And unless you're a very old man, it wasn't your great granddad but your great great great great granddad.

Why don't you thank parliament for taking the lead in ending the slave trade and thank the Royal Navy for enforcing the ban on slave ships. It was Britain which forcibly ended slavery in Zanzibar in the 1870s - or was that cultural imperialism?

Answer 7

properly frequently from Land. Prince Charles by the Duchy of Cornwall is between the biggest land owners interior the united kingdom, working example. i think of a few million-5 pence of each voters tax invoice is going to the Royals. most of the Royals have jobs, some serve interior the army. money that folk pay to bypass to Royal properties and Castles.

Answer 8

Maybe we should ask the French for an apology for the invasion of 1066 as well. The slave trade was not a good thing and i wont defend it but how far back do we go in history and say sorry for everything? Romans, Vikings, any country that had an empire? A lot of people dont realise it was black people capturing other black people and selling them to the English but you dont hear of Sierra-Leone or the Ivory Coast apologising. But as usual im guessing you are like most people on here and are not after a different point of view, just someone agreeing with you... ops, no ten points for me then.

Something else to add as well as i dont think you know much about this subject and just like most people who talk about this subject..... The Atlantic slave trade was started by the Portuguese but soon dominated by the English... but it was the English who stopped it... not the portuguese, not the Americans but the English... are you going to ask another question on here asking them as well? I bet you dont.

Answer 9

You know I have no idea why they don't feel compelled to apologize for such an atrocity. I was just watching a show on Discovery Times yesterday about seriously messed up women and there was a Countess named Elizabeth Bathory in a town in Hungary who killed her servant girls and some of the town's girls under the belief that if she drank blood she would be immortal (this was in the 1600s I believe). But, about 10 years ago or so her great great great great...grandson went to the town to see the castle where she was and even went to the town to offer his apologies to the townspeople hopefully reconciling the relationship between his bloodline and the townspeople. He was welcomed with open arms and the mayor said he could come back any time. It just goes to show that a little courtesy goes a long way.

Answer 10

This drones on and on on and on, where is the apology from the German population if you like for the Jews, what about the Kurds from the English in the first world war, it goes on and on. YES its true in this day and age people should be brought to book for atrocities against humanity, but keeping trawling up history cannot be healthy for anyone who is alive today, if its any use i apologise! not sure wot for seeings as it happened nearly 200 years before i was born, all the best