The Other Side Of Slavery; A British Perspective

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[TheRatHunter]

I love the British, at least the educated ones. If I had to pick one place to live if it couldn't be the United States, it'd be there. That or Australia.

[cougar_mccxxi]

Australia would have been great when you could still have guns! :)

[TheRatHunter]

Yea, if only the UK hadn't outlawed guns too. Ever wonder why their crime rate is so high? The day the gun ban went into effect was like Christmas for robbers, muggers, and rapists.

I think Australia and the UK are still the best chances for re-fostering conservatism in the rest of the world, though. A select elite force of American FReepers should pick a place and migrate! Gotta start somewhere!

[cougar_mccxxi]

Christmas for robbers, very funny yet very true.

[xJones]

An excellent article, and I'm bookmarking it!

[Mark was here]

When Britain annexed part of Nigeria in 1861, the main reason for doing so was to stamp out the slave trade there. In fact, many African states and their rulers saw the abolition of slavery by Britain as an insult to Islam, which taught that non-Muslims could be lawfully enslaved.

Still teaches and practices that non-Muslims can be enslaved.

[JimVT]

For those who did not know about these things, and sadly there are a great number,

Hey...no problem.....60 minutes will pick this up for a full feature on Black Slave Traders.

Gauranteed!

[Ready4Freddy]

Huh, all that, and no mention of Amazing Grace?

[TheRatHunter]

To Mr. Banned Account:

Merry Christmas, troll!

[cougar_mccxxi]

Thanks. It was an eye opener for me as well. Very good read.

[Capriole]

It is very easy to see how Trades Unionism and Communism could have developed in England under these circumstances. And it is also easy to see how Southern Americans could act righteous and claim that fleeing blacks would face harder conditions in the North than they did on the Southern farm, or that blacks in slavery fared better than white Northern factory workers.

[cougar_mccxxi]

Very good points, especially comparing the plight of northern sweatshop workers to slavery...

[Captain Kirk]

Nonsens. The industrial revolution was a difficult period compared to today but it wa a boon to workers, compared to the pre-capitalist era. Not surprisingly, many of pro-slavery southerners, such as George Fitzhugh, were explicitly socialist because of their disdaine for thrifty free laborers (who they insulted by calling "wage slaves").

[cougar_mccxxi]

Makes one wonder about the wonderful Muslim religion.

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP*

[SpaceBar]

Few realize and fewer will admit that the best thing that ever happened to human trafficking was the white man. After existing for centuries if not millenia in Africa and Asia, slavery was introduced to western Europe. A few scant centuries later it was outlawed, followed shortly after by the young United States. If it was up to the rest of the world instead of Great Britain and the US, slaves would be advertised on television.

[Capriole]

Nonsens. The industrial revolution was a difficult period compared to today but it wa a boon to workers, compared to the pre-capitalist era.

Nonsense, back at you. Calling the ceaseless toil of five-year-olds and the flogging of tiny, exhausted children "difficult" is like calling slave life in antebellum Georgia "difficult." Life was a horror for these people. You try doing physical labor in the lightless depths of a coal mine, sixteen hours a day, with no hope, inadequate food, and no rest until death. Compared to the more measured labor of rural life, factory work was dire. I speak from experience as one who spent her formative years living and working on a farm with little machinery. Agricultural life is hard, but it is nothing compared to the suffering of industrial workers.