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To: SMARTY
Colonial powers took way longer to abolish slavery than the United States did.

Inaccurate. I believe the only western nations to not abolish slavery before the USA were Brazil and Cuba.

Brazil was an independent nation at the time, and Cuba was a Spanish colony.

Of course, slavery hung on a lot longer, to this day in some cases, in Muslim, Middle Eastern and Far Eastern areas.

65 posted on 03/21/2008 12:45:44 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: Sherman Logan

“...slavery hung on a lot longer, to this day in some cases, in Muslim, Middle Eastern and Far Eastern areas”

I thought that’w what I said.


66 posted on 03/21/2008 12:47:46 PM PDT by SMARTY ('At some point you get tired of swatting flies, and you have to go for the manure heap' Gen. LeMay)
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