I must have missed the part were men were bought and sold under impressment. Perhaps you’d be good enough to show us such an example.
Calling impressment “slavery” makes as much sense as calling our military draft slavery. You didn’t burn your Impressment Card, did you?
A foreign nation stops you on a ship. Forces you at gunpoint onto their ship and forces you into work. That’s slavery sport.
Play word games if you want. Defend the Brits if you are one of those types. But please don’t pretend the Brits abhorred slavery. In our amendment we called it involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime.
That is what slavery was defined as in 1865. It was still fresh on their minds then.
That right there is a progressive fallacy.
People who live in slavery under communism are not always bought and sold. The slaves who built the Great Wall and the Terracotta Army were not always bought and sold.
The slaves who ended up in the western hemisphere on British ships were slaves before they were bought and sold - enslaved by islamic raiders and other african conquerors.
How about all of the sex slaves held in captivity right now as we speak? Many of whom have never been bought and sold? Must not be slaves after all, if we follow this "bought and sold" business to its logical conclusion.
Impressment isn’t slavery?? I guess it will have to do until the real things come along!