[conservatism_IS_compassion]

. . . The Muslims were the first slavers, Africa to the East not Africa to the New World. The Portugese. Dutch, French, and British were responsible for the majority of the slave trade. The United States had a very small part in the slave trade, when the United States was formed abolition had begun at at the behest of the United States. Of the 12 million slave brought to the New World 500,000 were landed in the United States 5% of the total.

History taught in the United States insinuates that slavery was the result of the Uniated States and the United States only---What false-hood and distortion of the true facts.

10 posted on 08/02/2003 3:12 PM EDT by BIGZ
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'course the treatment of each of the descendants of the 500,000 who were imported from Africa as slaves is another matter altogether, but from a certain point of view the fact that they even had descendants is better than the fate of Saddam's victims, perhaps more numerous than the slaves imported to North America, almost all of them before the Constitution of the US was framed.

[malia]

for later