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To: Pelham

It was nothing like the draft. There was no select service in which every able man registered for the draft and therefore knew in advance that he was liable to go off to war. He had no advance notice. Additionally, impressment, which was really a Royal Navy problem, often simply took sailors off the street and forced them onto ships. They gangpressed American sailors! I suggest you read some Melville before accepting that this was not a noxious practice. Laws were passed in the 1830s to stop the practice; unsurprisingly, around the same time they abolished slavery. I’m sure many noticed the similarity.


47 posted on 07/20/2019 1:49:30 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Show that the sailors were bought and sold and you have a case to equate impressment with slavery.

I never said it wasn’t a “noxious practice”. I said it was compulsory military service and not slavery.

https://www.marinersmuseum.org/sites/micro/usnavy/08/08a.htm


48 posted on 07/20/2019 1:58:14 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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