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1 posted on 12/18/2004 7:19:06 AM PST by cougar_mccxxi
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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.


2 posted on 12/18/2004 7:23:16 AM PST by TheRatHunter
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To: cougar_mccxxi

An excellent article, and I'm bookmarking it!


6 posted on 12/18/2004 7:41:22 AM PST by xJones
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To: cougar_mccxxi
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.

7 posted on 12/18/2004 7:43:31 AM PST by Mark was here (My tag line was about to be censored.)
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Huh, all that, and no mention of Amazing Grace?
11 posted on 12/18/2004 8:03:19 AM PST by Ready4Freddy (Carpe Sharpei !)
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To Mr. Banned Account:

Merry Christmas, troll!


12 posted on 12/18/2004 8:17:20 AM PST by TheRatHunter
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To: cougar_mccxxi

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.


14 posted on 12/18/2004 8:30:51 AM PST by Capriole (the Luddite hypocritically clicking away on her computer)
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To: cougar_mccxxi

*BUMP*


18 posted on 12/18/2004 8:55:37 AM PST by ex-Texan (Si triste trop mauvais. Revoyez-vous !)
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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.


19 posted on 12/18/2004 8:57:42 AM PST by SpaceBar
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Universal-blog from an independent universe..
Amazing display of British antislavery action...HOWEVER;

PITY too.. for England for fall for slavery again in so complete a manner..
Socialism is indeed slavery by government..
And democracy is the disease from which it comes.. After such a hard and prolonged battle, its ironic to see England so completely slave ridden..

Socialism has spread almost unchecked to all of URP... too..
Even in the United States slavery is practiced with abandon..
Here in the U.S. most all of the MSM, MSP, and ALL of Academia, damn near most of Hollywood are pushing slavery again as the MORAL thing to do....

Socialism is absolutely and completely Slavery by government.. As the rise of U.S. Federal Governments internal power and the scope and breadth of it rises. The Slavery of the American people is insured and transfered to other countries, like China.. The Chinese already were slaves(always were) but their form of slavery was out dated.. Socialism (usually through democracy) in its purest sense is spread to enslave the world.. In the U.S. today merely mentioning the words socialism or communism (which is socialism) is frowned upon as impolite..

Slavery is NOT DEAD but is alive in its most virulent form, Socialism.. And is spreading to every corner of the earth.. Canada, Australia, all URPeans country's are already SLAVE markets.. The rest of the world with archaic slaveing systems are slowing being UPGRADED to socialism though DEMOCRACY... The next time you hear the word democracy be advised, democracy is the social disease that socialism COME FROM... Socialism is slavery by government through Mob rule(democracy).. voted in by the Slaves themselves...

NO I'm not kidding, its true.. Humans don't seem to be too smart.. Caution: be careful when around a human.. listen very carefully to all the say. They have a slave mentality..

22 posted on 12/18/2004 9:23:53 AM PST by hosepipe (This Propaganda has been edited to include not a small amount of Hyperbole..)
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Sorry, but many Christian abolitionists also opposed child labor in sweat shops. The evangelical movement, in 19th century America at least, had many who held both anti-slavery and anti-child labor views.

On the topic of slavery itself, yes, slavery was a nearly universal phenomenon in the mid-1700's. It was a segment of the European Christian community that first began to realize that chattel slavery was inconsistent with the love of God in Jesus for all humankind.

Defending slavery in 1704 is understandable. Defending it in 2004 is damnable.

And, yes, other societies had slave practices that were as bad or worse than those of the Europeans. So what! Can't those who love freedom and the Declaration's claim that "all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights" simply say that our ancestors, God love them, were wrong. They were wrong to hold men in slavery and, when slavery ended, they were wrong to make laws that enforced legal segregation based on race.


30 posted on 12/18/2004 9:43:58 AM PST by bin2baghdad
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To: wardaddy

ping


31 posted on 12/18/2004 9:45:42 AM PST by cyborg (http://www.zimbabwesituation.com/flamelily.html)
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"English involvement in the slave trade began about 1663."

I don't quite understand this date. Consider:

1619: First record of Blacks in North America when 20 Africans arrive at Jamestown, Virginia, a British colony. (They apparently were treated about the same as White apprentices were.)  

1641: Another British colony, Massachusettes, becomes the first colony to authorize slavery by statute.

33 posted on 12/18/2004 9:52:55 AM PST by StayAt HomeMother
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