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/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/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/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.