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British blacksmith on an anti-slavery patrol boat removing leg irons from a freed slave off the coast of Mozambique, 1907
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I may be reading into it, but I wonder if that's that generations way of saying they beat the shit out of the slavers before turning them over to the authorities, without admitting to anything specific.
It is.
Except they were also the authorities.
Police violence?
They declined to offer them tea. Monstrous behavior from a brit