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To: TheThinker
...the actual capture and kidnapping of the millions of victims always occurred at the hands of neighboring tribes.

I remember reading somewhere that the Africans Bill Clinton apologized to were actually the descendants of the slave traders who sold the slaves.

One myth I wish Medved had addressed is the myth that a war was necessary to end slavery in the United States. Slavery ended peacefully everywhere in the western world except here and Haiti. It would have ended peacefully here as well.

2 posted on 10/03/2007 11:35:08 PM PDT by antinomian
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To: antinomian
Earlier this week, the Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, said he didn't believe President Clinton should make a public apology for America's role in the slave trade.

He said tribal chiefs bore more responsibility for slavery than European and American slave traders.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service Clinton acknowledges wrongness of slavery

12 posted on 10/04/2007 12:17:10 AM PDT by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: antinomian

Really? The U.S. led the world in ending slavery.
The roots of which began in England by the Christian evangelical movement.

The south quit the union mostly because of the prohibition of
extending slavery into the free terretories. I suppose you would let that stand.


15 posted on 10/04/2007 12:55:31 AM PDT by ChiMark
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