This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Making the UK educational system include the history of The White Slave Trade
To ensure the education curriculum includes the History of the White Slave Trade as equally as the BAME Historical slavery. To make this compulsory for all UK students to learn.
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With the recent BLM protests it has highlighted that little is taught about the white slave trade that runs alongside the black slave trade era. Young people are taught a bias view even though the enslavement of British/European people by the black slave traders surpass in numbers and ended later than the abolition of black slavery.
Our education system is the root cause of predjudice and division between races by only teaching one side of slavery.
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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Reform the National Curriculum on the basis of equality and BAME representation: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324690
Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323961
Make black history a compulsory part of the national curriculum for all ages: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323654
Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324092
Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323808
We have also published several petitions about race and equality more widely, which you can view here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open&topic=race-and-equality
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