Indeed, our morals and values have changed considerably in just the last 50-60 years when you look at homosexuality, black footballers, Asian immigration etc.
There must’ve been lots of decent humanist-type people (even if of religious belief) who thought this was wrong, in order to force through the end of slavery. It’s a subject I don’t know that much about so perhaps I should read up on it, but I believe it was the wealthier traders who would’ve benefitted directly from this awful part of our history rather than the Average Joe.
The part I struggle with reconciling, there’s a lot of shit going on in the world which the U.K. contributes to directly or indirectly. Perhaps in centuries time our future families will look back at all the proxy wars and shit in the world where our allies bomb refugee houses for example but that’s good for profits, and wonder what we were like as normal people powerless to really stop all that. I’m getting very philosophical here…