Combating slavery gave the British Empire a comparative advantage, as they could export commodities like Sugar, Cotton, Palm Oil, and Coffee from the British Raj (which in the 19th century included all of South Asia as well as Malaysia) and British Egypt (cotton) without a plantation slavery model, while undermining competitors like the US and Brazil who used that model for commodity exports.
Same reason why the industrial Northeast and small-farmer Midwest was opposed to slavery, as both lobbies were undermined by the economics of slavery.
Britain ended slavery and started colonization. But yeah "they ended slave trade"
No amount of info will convince people that colonization was evil and abhorrent because they were party to it, they benefited from it.
Much of South India and Eastern India was already British ruled by the early 1800s.
> Apartheid didn't end until the 90's
Apartheid was started by the Boers (Dutch South Africans who also fought against the British) once they got autonomy in the 1920s.
Apartheid Era South Africa was also very anti-Anglo as well as anti-Black.
No they were not. They were run by private East India Company. With the revolt of 1857 and quashing of the rebellion, the official Raj by the British Royals began
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857
You are still bickering over pedantic stuff. Britain profited from slave trade. They just didn't want to use the term "slave" and used "colony" instead.