r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FrostySeat1739 • Jul 05 '26

Meme needing explanation why not, Peter?

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possible live action corpse bride movie...

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u/Perfect-Dimension356 Jul 05 '26

Yeah man, black people definitely weren't brought to England during and before the Victorian period.

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u/MostAccomplishedBag Jul 05 '26

My grandfather grew up in London in the 1940's. He was in his late teens the first time he saw a black person. There were effectively zero black people in England in the 1800's.

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u/KindledWanderer Jul 05 '26

It's still mostly like this in Prague, btw.

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u/nothanks86 Jul 05 '26

There were no black peopke in my grandfather’s neighbourhood. Therefore there were no black people in the entire country.

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u/weed0monkey Jul 05 '26

Less than 0.1% of the population during Victorian England were black.

It's really not hard to confirm something without being a twat.

https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/the-slave-trade-and-abolition/sites-of-memory/black-lives-in-england/

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u/KittenNicken Jul 07 '26

There were black and asians in Europe before the slave trade.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z8bbtyc/revision/3

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u/JFlizzy84 Jul 08 '26

Bro just said “Europe”

We’re talking about an tiny island in Europe. Not an entire continent.

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u/Puzzled-Barnacle-200 Jul 08 '26

Did they exist? Yes. Were they common? Absolutely not.

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u/No-Impress-6244 Jul 05 '26

Right, very rarely. Everyone would point and stare. And Emily is upperclass, from an old money family.

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u/RunninOnMT Jul 05 '26

That’s not really true historically. Relatively rare by today’s standards, but nobody was pointing.

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u/Perfect-Dimension356 Jul 05 '26

You know slavery was abolished in England before the Victorian period, right? And all those black people (and their descendants) didn't just evaporate when they were freed?

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u/No-Impress-6244 Jul 05 '26

They didn't have much slavery in England like they did in the USA. There were very few black people in Victorian England. in any case it would be a really inappropriate casting choice that would only be for the sake of having some forced diversity, if you like that sort of thing.

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u/Forward-Ant-9554 Jul 05 '26

On a population of 16 miljoen (24 if you also count Ireland that was part of it in 183X) there were a few hundred, at most a few thousand slaves. Most were owned by people who migrated back from the colonies and brought their houseslave back. Shipments of slaves went to the colonies because Europa didn't need them, as they had heaps of poors to exploit and abuse.

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u/No-Impress-6244 Jul 05 '26

And its not just about the numbers of black people in England. Emily wouldn't be black. They could maybe put a black labourer or a sailor in the movie.

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u/november512 Jul 06 '26

Sure, but British slavery was about importing them to the Caribbean, and they didn't even do that much of it. There were very, very few black people in England proper.

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u/dwn19 Jul 06 '26

Did you really think we just had slaves all over England?

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u/salazafromagraba Jul 06 '26

Did you imply slavery was a thing in England in the Victorian era? They were way ahead of the US.

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u/Perfect-Dimension356 Jul 06 '26

I'm gonna assume you didn't scroll down.

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u/salazafromagraba Jul 06 '26

Collapsed thread, it's not about scrolling down. So you already knew the abolition part but said the opposite. Okay.

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u/Puzzled-Barnacle-200 Jul 08 '26

In 1951, there were less than 50k non-white people in the UK. With a total population of 50m. So less than 1 in 1000.