England already paid reparations. Did that and then in 1840ish started stamping it out across the world.
The US had to do things a bit different because of its constitution. Other countries (like all of SAmerica) avoided the issue for as long as they could.
“England already paid reparations.”
I agree.
It is true that they ran the show for centuries in the 1600s/1700s, but fast forward to 1808 and they’re using their entire navy to get rid of it.
Navies aren’t cheap. Britain is paid in full.
Did that cancel out what they did before? Or what they were going to do after?
The US had to do things a bit different because of its constitution. Other countries (like all of SAmerica) avoided the issue for as long as they could.
The Spanish-speaking republics had all abolished slavery by 1860 -- some early (Mexico, Bolivia, Central America, and Chile) and others later (only in the 1850s for much of the South America). The big exceptions were Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the Spanish colonies of Cuba and Puerto Rico. They had the most slaves and slaveowners and held out the longest (into the 1880s for Brazil and Cuba).
I thought all the South American republics abolished slavery when they became independent. That isn't true. Still, they did it before we did. However, in many places Indians and Blacks were still virtual slaves for a very long time after they were officially emancipated.