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To: jmacusa

Certainly the sins of slavery were not original to the US. The northern states which forbade slavery (beginning with Vermont) led the world. Britain, belatedly declared slavery illegal in 1833, and Wilburforce played a key role in removing theological justifications.


127 posted on 10/13/2012 11:41:13 PM PDT by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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To: donmeaker

No slavery was not an American creation. But it certainly was here when America was created.


130 posted on 10/14/2012 12:12:46 AM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: donmeaker

Actually, the Congress of the Confederation led the way. In 1787 it prohibited slavery in the territories NW of the Ohio River.


134 posted on 10/14/2012 4:56:18 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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