Rejected petition Teach all UK Students about the Barbary African slave trade from 1400-1848.

Explain that it wasnt just european powers that partake in the slave trade african Barbary states enslaved europeans, how the British Empire ended that slavery in 1807 and enforced it with might of the Royal Navy from 1812 onwards.

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Enbrace our colonial history with pride how we saved the free world countless times and ended barbaric acts of slavery teach all who fail to realise all nations conducted slavery and it was the British who put an end to it.

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Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323808

Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323961

Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324092

Introduce Gender and Race equity for GCSE English Literature set texts:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324934

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Date submitted 13 June 2020
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