Don 🍋 getting owned about reparations. 😂
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What kind of excuse is that? Well, it wasn't England's fault, we inherited it from the Romans, they inherited it from the Greeks and they got it from the Minoans ...
The ancient Egyptians had slaves and we all still do. These days we concentrate on the movement of slaves rather than their work after they arrive so it is now called human trafficking.
Excuse? Its a fact. Slavery was here well over 150 years before the USA existed. An entire economy was built around it. When a ship changes course, the course change is almost immediate but the destination takes time. 1776 was a course change.
Once we were a nation, slavery was targeted. The first salvo was our Declaration of Independence. "All men are created equal..." The second salvo was a Constitution that recognized rights of all people. From there, the people of this great nation took over and worked against it. Eventually forming a political party to drive it out, which lead to a civil war. So it took a few decades to work through the process, but it was always the direction we were headed. The price you pay when you refuse to be lead by kings.
the economy grew faster in the free north than the slave south....America grew Despite slavery.
Was slavery ever made legal in the UK?
I do not believe so, but I never said it did. It did participate in it, including on the shores of America. As did the USA for a short period (in the grand scheme of things).
My original point was only that America did not impose it, as you said. Impose, means force it. As a nation, the US never imposed slavery. It was already here and we quickly worked to dispatch it.
I am guessing you are from England. I am not judging England and especially not you. Just defending the USA against the narrative that it imposed slavery, which is akin more to the '1619 Project' view of the world and false.
Indentured servants
Sadly