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Britain FORCED slavery on America.
"The legislatures of some of the colonies have done what they could to put a stop to the importation of African slaves, by loading it with the heaviest duties: And others have attempted the total abolition of it, by acts of assembly which their (Royal) governors refused to pass." - (October 18th, 1776)
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It took the United States over 80 years to be rid of the horrid British institution of slavery.
Oh, and white Republicans passed the 13th to 15th Amendments without a single Democrat vote.
The introduction of African slaves to what became the United States was not begun by the English in Virginia, but rather by the Spanish in Florida in 1526, in San Miguel de Guadalpe. Those hundred or so slaves took umbrage at their treatment, rebelled, killed their master, burned his house to the ground, and fled. What became of those slaves who self-manumitted is unknown; they may have simply perished, or taken up with Indians. The colony failed and it is uncertain if it may have been in what is now Georgia, near Sapelo Island.
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Ending slavery in the British empire is not comparable to ending slavery in the colonies or the United States. The slaves freed by the British empire were not in Great Britain. The day after emancipation they were not saying "Welcome, neighbor. Don't forget to register to vote."
The pressure cooker in America was what to do with the slaves if they were freed. The plan to send them back to Africa was logistically impossible. In Lincoln's defense of the Emancipation Proclamation, he sought to assuage the Northern states, telling them that they could refuse to accept them.
CW 5:534-35, President Lincoln, December 1, 1862, Annual Message to Congress
Heretofore colored people, to some extent, have fled north from bondage; and now, perhaps, from both bondage and destitution. But if gradual emancipation and deportation be adopted, they will have neither to flee from. Their old masters will give them wages at least until new laborers can be procured; and the freed men, in turn, will gladly give their labor for the wages, till new homes can be found for them, in congenial climes, and with people of their own blood and race. This proposition can be trusted on the mutual interests involved. And, in any event, cannot the north decide for itself, whether to receive them?
The Northern states had had largely been ethnically cleansed by gradual emancipation which freed few, but created an overwhelming incentive to sell slaves South.
One can only imagine what would have happened to the abolition movement had it been approached like current illegal immigration. Enterprising Southern states could have engaged in compensated emancipation of, say, 5,000 slaves a day, and then delivered them to freedom in New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, and such. How much abolition would they have taken under those circumstances?
They might have sounded like the Democrat politicians of today in NYC, Chicago, or one memorable emergency in Martha's Vineyard.