[CondoleezzaProtege]

The Brits ended slavery before America did and didn't fight a bloody war to do so. That's the point. Abolitionists like Frederick Douglas praised Britain and called for U.S. to follow suit in published essays and speeches like "What to the slave is the 4th of July?" (1852)

Curry is a national dish in the U.K. There are British-Indians, British-Pakistanis, and British-Africans aplenty who have found their place and integrated successfully into British society throughout the decades. And if they don't live there, then happily exchange, study, trade, and do business with England and/or retain their "Commonwealth" status.

Oh and there's a half-black Princess now too. But Russian state TV did not air the Royal Wedding because it's "propaganda."

Meanwhile, what does Russia have to show for its Soviet legacy and satellite states. Let's see: NORTH KOREA for one. Kim Il Sung was handpicked by Stalin. - Cuba, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Syria, to name a FEW...

It's one thing if an Indian/African historian were recounting Britain's former sins, but it'a a whole other when it is a 1) spokesman for former KGB officer Putin, 2) in a country nostalgic for USSR's glory, 3) where Stalin is considered by many to be a hero-victor, and 4) Lenin's body still lies in open display in Red Square.

[SkyDancer]

The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 abolished slavery throughout the British Empire. This Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, expanded the jurisdiction of the Slave Trade Act 1807, making the purchase or ownership of slaves illegal within the British Empire, with the exception "of the Territories in the Possession of the East India Company", Ceylon, and Saint Helena.

So they didn't totally abandon slavery.