Posted on 09/08/2001 5:54:26 PM PDT by metacognate
You do. Forget the tiny fiddle player.
He disappears when you aren't looking.
"Hey, I have evidence of ...., but I won't show you - you just have to take my word for it or find it for yourself, you probably wouldn't understand my source anyways."
Blah blah blah - your silence proves a lot about your level of intelligence - Anyone can state something - it takes something else to back it up.
Goodnight poor fool.
"Hey, I have evidence of ...., but I won't show you - you just have to take my word for it or find it for yourself, you probably wouldn't understand my source anyways."
Blah blah blah - your silence proves a lot about your level of intelligence - Anyone can state something - it takes something else to back it up.
Goodnight poor fool. Have fun dreaming of yourself as an Intellectual powerhouse.
Again, I asked a question and then asked for a source as in where you got your answer from. Refusing to tell me, makes you the "know-it-all." And refusing to believe anything you say outright, just because you say it, is basic critical thinking on my part.
You do live a confused life don't you.
I haven't argued the facts yet. I'm still trying to find out the source that you got your facts from (if it exists and it's looking more and more like there is no such source - AT LEAST THAT YOU HAVE EVER SEEN - i'm sure some other reputable freerepublic.com user told you though, right?) and find out more about it.
Timeline: The Atlantic Slave Trade link</a href> bought the least amount, The first link gave that info. treated them more humanely, I have nothing to prove that statement with except to look at how other nations treated their slaves. and were the first to quit the practice. We got the ball rolling--
try finding a personality sometime.
1502 First reported African slaves in the New World. [*note to lazy-lib* OUR continent hadn't yet been discovered--they went to south america]
1640-1680 Beginning of large-scale introduction of African slave labor in the British Caribbean for sugar production.
1791 The Haitian Revolution begins as a slave uprising near Le Cap in the French West Indian colony of Santo Domingo and leads to establishment of black nation of Haiti in 1801.
1793 Waves of white refugees pour into U.S. ports, fleeing the insurrection in Santo Domingo.
1794 The French National Convention emancipates all slaves in the French colonies.
March 22: U.S. Congress passes legislation prohibiting the manufacture, fitting, equipping, loading or dispatching of any vessel to be employed in the slave trade.
1795 Pinckney’s Treaty establishes commercial relations between U.S. and Spain.
1800 May 10: U.S. enacts stiff penalties for American citizens serving voluntarily on slavers trading between two foreign countries.
1804 January 1: The Republic of Haiti is proclaimed. The hemispere's second Republic is declared on January 1, 1804 by General Jean-Jacques Dessalines. Haiti, or Ayiti in Creole, is the name given to the land by the former Taino-Arawak peoples, meaning "mountainous country."
1807 British Parliament bans the Atlantic slave trade.
Great Britain converts Sierra Leone into a crown colony.
1807 U.S. passes legislation banning slave trade, to take effect 1808.
1810 British negotiate an agreement with Portugal calling for gradual abolition of slave trade in the South Atlantic.
1815 At the Congress of Vienna, the British pressure Spain, Portugal, France and the Netherlands to agree to abolish the slave trade (though Spain and Portugal are permitted a few years of continued slaving to replenish labor supplies).
1817 September 23: Great Britain and Spain sign a treaty prohibiting the slave trade: Spain agrees to end the slave trade north of the equator immediately, and south of the equator in 1820. British naval vessels are given right to search suspected slavers. Still, loopholes in the treaty undercut its goals. Slave trade flows strongly, 1815-1830. Slave economies of Cuba and Brazil expand rapidly.
In the Le Louis case, British courts establish the principal that British naval vessels cannot search foreign vessels suspected of slaving unless permitted by their respective countries -- a ruling that hampers British efforts to suppress the slave trade.
1819 U.S. and Spain renew commercial agreements in the Adams-Onis Treaty.
U.S. Congress passes legislation stiffening provisions against American participation in the slave trade.
Britain stations a naval squadron on the West African coast to patrol against illegal slavers.
1820 May 15: U.S. law makes slave trading piracy, punishable by the death penalty.
The U.S. Navy dispatches four vessels to patrol the coast of West Africa for slavers. This initial campaign lasts only four years before the Americans recall the cruisers and break off cooperation with the British.
1824 Great Britain and the U.S. negotiate a treaty recognizing the slave trade as piracy and establishing procedures for joint suppression. But the Senate undercuts the treaty’s force in a series of amendments, and the British refuse to sign.
1825 The Antelope case: A U.S. Revenue Cutter seizes a slave ship, the Antelope, sailing under a Venezuelan flag with a cargo of 281 Africans. The U.S. Supreme Court hears the case and issues a unanimous opinion declaring the slave trade to be a violation of natural law, meaning it can be upheld only by positive law.
But the ruling sets only some of the Africans free, holding that the U.S. could not prescribe law for other nations and noting that the slave trade was legal as far as Spain, Portugal, Venezuela were concerned. So the vessel is restored to its owners, along with those Africans designated by the court as Spanish property (numbering 39).
1831 A large-scale slave revolt breaks out in Jamaica -- brutally repressed.
1833 Great Britain passes the Abolition of Slavery Act, providing for emancipation in the British West Indies -- set to take effect August 1834. (Following emancipation, a 6 year period of apprenticeship is permitted.)
1835 June 28: The Anglo-Spanish agreement on the slave trade is renewed, and enforcement is tightened. British cruisers are authorized to arrest suspected Spanish slavers and bring them before mixed commissions established at Sierra Leone and Havana. Vessels carrying specified “equipment articles” (extra mess gear, lumber, foodstuffs) are declared prima-facie to be slavers.
1837 Britain invites the U.S. and France to create an international patrol to interdict slaving. The U.S. declines to participate.
1838 In the British West Indies, most colonial assemblies have introduced legislation dismantling apprenticeships. Laws against vagrancy and squatting attempt to keep the social and labor system of the plantation economy intact, with varying results.
1839 January: Nicholas Trist, U.S. Consul in Havana, recommends that the administration dispatch a naval squadron to West Africa to patrol for slavers, warning that the British would police American vessels if the U.S. did not.
June 12: The British navy brig Buzzard escorts two American slavers, the brig Eagle and the schooner Clara, to New York City to be tried as pirates. Two more arrive several weeks later, and another pair later that Fall.
The Amistad is seized off Long Island and taken to New London.
(Fall) U.S. federal officers arrest several vessel owners in Baltimore implicated by the British as slave traders. Several schooners being built for the trade are seized as well.
Turner’s The Slave Ship (also known as Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying -- Typhoon coming on) goes on display at the Royal Academy in London.
1841 Nicholas Trist is dismissed as U.S. Consul in Havana, amid allegations he connived at, or at any rate took no effort to suppress, frequent illegal sales of U.S. vessels to Spanish slave traders.
I, unlike you, know how to use a search engine.
Yeah..I did make a mistake. For some reason I was thinking 1592 instead of 1492 in regard to columbus discovering america.--My apologies. I take back smart mouth reply. Still--europe, africa, aisa and south america were all engageed in slaving before us.
libertarian_usa: You're stupid.
JMJ333: You smell.
libertarian_usa: Do not! Poopyhead!
JMJ333: Your mama!
libertarian_usa: You know it.
JMJ333: Scuzz-brain! Go milk a rabid badger.
libertarian_usa: Goodnight stupid!
JMJ333: Goodnight moron. And I'm not stupid!
libertarian_usa: Yeah, you are.
JMJ333: Nah-uh, I'm smart.
libertarian_usa: Yah-huh, you stupid.
JMJ333: Nah-uh!
libertarian_usa: Yah-huh!
...and it trails on into the night...
Put the cork in the Jack Daniels and go to bed.
You usually make some pretty good points, but right you are as fat-fingered as a well hung bulldyke.
Oyasumi nasai!
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