We were the leaders in abolition - America. The colonies.
Just goes to show you how long ago progressives captured history and stole it from us. We haven't "forgotten". This has been a malicious decades-long agenda to omit and erase.
“They didn’t start it, they lagged behind.”
Who really really lagged behind was/is Africa, they still practice slave trading.
There was a lot of tension between those who found slavery odious and the need to get the Southern colonies to join the rebellion. Some fellow at the Constitutional Convention wanted to give a speech denouncing slaveholders as egregious sinners, and the other delegates had to shut him up - how the heck are we going to form a nation if you start mouthing off like that?
It should be noted, however, that the motivation for New England to end the slave trade wasn’t exactly pure as the driven snow. Many New Englanders quite simply didn’t want black people living in New England. New England prided itself on having inhabitants of pure English stock. It was the home of the Social Darwinism movement. This notion that the North had this great moral opposition to slavery is a modern figment of the imagination. Slavery was opposed in border and northern states largely on “labor” grounds, i.e., working class whites did not want their wages cut by competing with slave labor.
Slave trade perspective:
http://blog.nationalgeographic.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/gitn_1027_Slave-Trade-2.png
Looks like it doesn’t include white folks captured by mooselimbs and put into slavery.
Slavery became illegal on the British mainland in 1772.
From 1807 onwards the Royal Navy began the dangerous work of suppressing the transatlantic slave trade.
Bkmrk
Revisionist garbage. The international slave trade was the third leg of the “Yankee Traders’” triangular trade scheme at that time and British warships were intercepting New England (especially Rhode Island) financed-built-owned-operated transports until well after the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified. You keep throwing it, hoping that it will eventually stick, but this high-fiber bullshit isn’t getting adhesion. You’ve been corrected on this matter before and you can no longer just pretend to be ignorant. You’re obviously just a liar.
The slave trade started in Egypt and Africa, thousands of years before the UK ever existed, and in North America with the Indians, hundreds or thousands of years before the American Colonies. There’s no denying or changing history to fit their BS claims.
Nikole Hannah-Jones says that’s not true. /s
Parts 2 and 3 are available if you click on the author’s name at the source. I’ve not had time to read it all, and won’t for awhile due to family events. But those with time and interest could read the entire thing now.
Zzzz
I care so much
Slavery
Schmavery
We’ve lost our nation and you’re still flagellating
How weak
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