[Pelham]

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

[miss marmelstein]

You don't think gangpressing men onto ships isn't akin to forcing Africans onto ships? In that instance, it is entirely analogous to slavery. The Brits seemed to have invented the whole slave process whether white or black!

For goodness sake, it was cited as one of the reasons for the 1812 War!