Impressment isn’t slavery?? I guess it will have to do until the real things come along!
“Impressment isn’t slavery?? I guess it will have to do until the real things come along!”
That used to be a popular refrain for some Americans who went to Canada in the ‘60s.
Impressment was compulsory military service. We have it, it’s called the draft.
The Brits claimed that the sailors they were impressing circa 1812 were British citizens who had jumped ship to sail on American vessels.