[Nathan Zachary]

"Oh come on! The plantation system was created by the Portuguese in Brazil, and carried to the English Caribbean by Jews ..."

Still doesn't change the FACT that "the African slave trade was PIONEERED by Arab, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and other merchants long before the settlement of English North America"

And is still in practice by Islam today, and is made "legal and good" for all time in the Koran by "allah"(Mohammad)

[J Aguilar]

Still doesn't change the FACT that "the African slave trade was PIONEERED by Arab, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and other merchants long before the settlement of English North America"

Indeed, for the simple reason that Portuguese and Spaniards settled in America a century before the British. In the institution of slavery all took part: Spaniards, Portuguese, French (often forgotten), British, Arabs, Jews and Christians. The plantation system and popular revolts in the Southern colonies of North America made it especially hard there.

Nevertheless, the push to end the slavery came indeed from Britain and the Northern Colonies.