There are places where actual numbers can be researched, which further illustrates it.
This was primarily an old-world European problem.
Posted on 09/21/2021 10:16:07 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
The American Revolution changed the way Americans viewed one of the world’s great tragedies: the African slave trade. The long march to end the slave trade and then slavery itself had to start somewhere, and a strong argument can be made that it started with the thirteen American colonies gaining independence from Great Britain, then the world’s leading slave trading country.
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We were the leaders in abolition - America. The colonies.
Just goes to show you how long ago progressives captured history and stole it from us. We haven't "forgotten". This has been a malicious decades-long agenda to omit and erase.
“They didn’t start it, they lagged behind.”
Who really really lagged behind was/is Africa, they still practice slave trading.
This is accurate, but we didn’t declare independence from Ghana or Zimbabwe or Morocco.
We declared independence from Britain, who had power over us, and when we passed abolitionist laws (prior to Ind.) they vetoed them.
Algeria didn’t do that to us.
There was a lot of tension between those who found slavery odious and the need to get the Southern colonies to join the rebellion. Some fellow at the Constitutional Convention wanted to give a speech denouncing slaveholders as egregious sinners, and the other delegates had to shut him up - how the heck are we going to form a nation if you start mouthing off like that?
It should be noted, however, that the motivation for New England to end the slave trade wasn’t exactly pure as the driven snow. Many New Englanders quite simply didn’t want black people living in New England. New England prided itself on having inhabitants of pure English stock. It was the home of the Social Darwinism movement. This notion that the North had this great moral opposition to slavery is a modern figment of the imagination. Slavery was opposed in border and northern states largely on “labor” grounds, i.e., working class whites did not want their wages cut by competing with slave labor.
Sigh.
There’s always someone around ready and eager to kick sand on the Founding.
Slave trade perspective:
http://blog.nationalgeographic.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/gitn_1027_Slave-Trade-2.png
Looks like it doesn’t include white folks captured by mooselimbs and put into slavery.
There was a freed slave living in my Dad’s home town in the Hudson River Valley NY area in the 1700’s that bore my family’s last name. Never have gotten the story and probably never will.
Never mind that, before the American Revolution you could actually buy white convicts to work on your farm or plantation. They had an iron collar around their neck to prevent them from escaping. With 7-year indentures, they were a lot cheaper than slaves, but many of them weren’t very good workers.
Nobody is kicking sand on the Founding. I’m in to truth, not historical spin. While there were a handful of anti-slavery types who truly felt that slavery was an abomination, most the the “anti-slavery” movement was made up of labor union types who did not want competition from free slaves or immigrants.
Slavery became illegal on the British mainland in 1772.
From 1807 onwards the Royal Navy began the dangerous work of suppressing the transatlantic slave trade.
Bkmrk
Revisionist garbage. The international slave trade was the third leg of the “Yankee Traders’” triangular trade scheme at that time and British warships were intercepting New England (especially Rhode Island) financed-built-owned-operated transports until well after the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified. You keep throwing it, hoping that it will eventually stick, but this high-fiber bullshit isn’t getting adhesion. You’ve been corrected on this matter before and you can no longer just pretend to be ignorant. You’re obviously just a liar.
The slave trade started in Egypt and Africa, thousands of years before the UK ever existed, and in North America with the Indians, hundreds or thousands of years before the American Colonies. There’s no denying or changing history to fit their BS claims.
There are places where actual numbers can be researched, which further illustrates it.
This was primarily an old-world European problem.
Nikole Hannah-Jones says that’s not true. /s
The Irish?
Some people believe that the Royal Navy suppressed the slave trade in 1772, sadly, and don’t get the timeline correct.
Yeah, I remember you.
You’re the one who tries to do this bait and switch about something that happened decades later. You can’t call someone a revisionist if you can’t even get the timeline right. The timeline is really basic stuff here.
Do you know America didn’t exist prior to 1776? I shouldn’t have to ask, but maybe you didn’t know since you treat “New England” as if its one word or phrase, without asking what that “England” part is all about. That “England” part of “New England” is actually really important. We weren’t free colonies, we had no will of our own. That’s what Independence was all about.
The fact remains that at any point prior to Independence slavery was the British Empire’s cargo, on board the Empire’s ships moving in between one of the Empire’s ports to another of the Empire’s ports. Nothing you can do to change that. That’s the factual timeline.
America did not exist until Independence was declared. The date is July 2nd, 1776.
Parts 2 and 3 are available if you click on the author’s name at the source. I’ve not had time to read it all, and won’t for awhile due to family events. But those with time and interest could read the entire thing now.
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