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anti, had you had the advantage of attending the same private school as one of this site's frequent contributors you would have learned that slavery was a benign institution, and most slave owners were kind to their slaves. Oh, and also that the Pledge of Allegiance is part of the Bill of Rights.

Will someone PUULEEZE get adam some aluminum foil.

Because we are not alone here. We never have been alone here.

Do all of y'all really think humans could treat other humans that way? If slavery did happen..... What if, all slave owners weren't human at all. What if they were something different? What if they weren't able to feel compassion for the slaves like we humans feel for each other? Just something to ponder.

O will carry Bestill's mantle and say that I'm surprised anybody thought this.

Slavery was abolished (legally) in GB and her colonies in 1833 after a lifetime of campaigning by William Wilberforce, who died that same year. It continued to exist in certain colonies (the West Indies for one) because it provided cheap labor for sugar plantation owners. There were heated discussions in the Parlaiment between abolitionists and representatives of the plantation owners, sometimes leading to fist fights on the floor of the House of Commons.

This thread is a solution in search of a problem.

When I was in school, instructors taught that the Abolition movement in the US did not gain major support until great britain abolished slavery in their own country and colonies.

Was Strom a good guy as a democrat or a republican. Remember Joe said he was his friend

Yea, but you keep forgetting, those democrats become republican in the 60's and those republicans' become democrats, The truer statement is liberals freed the slaves and the conservatives fought to stop it. Of course truth means nothing to conservatives.

It was the Republicans that freed the slaves and the Democrats that try to keep them in chains

Trump owns slaves now.

Every living president has slave owners in their ancestors except Trump. That's another reason to vote for Trump.

American and British ships had to blockade the African ports to stop the slave ships.

Where is best ill?

I don't think I was ever taught that the US led a global charge in the abolition of slavery. Anyone who has been taught world history would know that was not true.

So you're telling me that you believe that human chattel slavery never happened in America?

The slavery that "THEY" say occurred back before the Civil War is probably a made up Fabrication, just like everything else. Probably they made it all up to keep us divided. But you bet your sweet @&$ that we are Slaves to their System right now. But not much longer. Get it Anti??

I just know that if Bestill were here then she would have a fit about this, claiming that everybody knows this and how stupid anyone is that doesn't! I sure do miss her insults and predictability... but this is something we were talking about in the office, and I was surprised that everyone thought that the US was first in the world.