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To: Ueriah

Where? :)

Interesting factoid. In media and the world, you’d get the impression the United States was largely responsible for slavery and the slave trade.

Yet <5% of slaves shipped across the Atlantic came to what is now the USA. The vast majority went to Brazil and the Caribbean.

But you never, ever hear about the original sin of Brazil or Barbados being slavery.


57 posted on 07/07/2015 5:56:16 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan
But you never, ever hear about the original sin of Brazil or Barbados being slavery.

Nor did we bother launching a massive invasion army to stamp out that evil slavery in the nearby Caribbean Islands. Funny how it was only a moral imperative when it was connected with Washington D.C. losing power over a group of people.

It's almost as if the US Union took no real notice of slavery, except when it was convenient to a larger issue; That of who would rule.

126 posted on 07/07/2015 9:10:24 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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