[Cronos]

In the coming decades, some nations, like Britain, abolished slavery and paid slaveholders for their losses, while also requiring newly freed people to continue working for their former masters for a number of years without pay. As the Swiss historian Frédérique Beauvois points out, the United States was an outlier: It freed people after the Civil War, and granted no compensation to their enslavers.

[V_TWIN]

“the United States was an outlier: It freed people after the Civil War”

I know hindsight is 2020 but after the Civil War they should have sent every freed slave that wanted to go back to Africa back.

[one guy in new jersey]

Very interesting. Thx for posting-OGINJ

[one guy in new jersey]

Southern slaveowners facing the looming prospect of civil war (with the likely result being hundreds of thousands killed) would very likely have been willing to negotiate a similar financial settlement.

Bill O’Reilly deemed President James Buchanan our worst president for needlessly failing to avoid civil war. Trump has similarly suggested that a settlement was likely possible, but for the poor quality of national (federal) political leadership at the time.

[DiogenesLamp]

In the coming decades, some nations, like Britain, abolished slavery and paid slaveholders for their losses, while also requiring newly freed people to continue working for their former masters for a number of years without pay. As the Swiss historian Frédérique Beauvois points out, the United States was an outlier: It freed people after the Civil War, and granted no compensation to their enslavers.

That's because the Southerners "crime" was not slavery, but daring to defy the corrupt financial cartel running Washington DC.

The criminals take a dim view regarding challenges to their power.

They dress it up as "morality", but the reality was revenge and punishment for those who dared to defy them.