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Posted by trainsarefun on Sun Feb 15 23:20:29 2009, in response to Re: WSJ interview with Jeb Bush, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Feb 15 23:05:38 2009. Abolition of slavery was not part of things in Europe, nor in Africa, frankly, where it still goes on. For abolition to have come about in the USA as rapidly as it did is quite remarkable.In the US, it was a considerable, if belated, feat because of the sheer number of slaves. The US banned the international slave trade a few years before the War of 1812, but by that point we had more than enough slaves so that further importation was not required; after all, the descendants of slaves make up 11-13% of the national population today even after mass immigration. Quite a few European nations beat us to the punch by decades or centuries in banning slavery. Sweden is one, and Scotland another although I'm not sure how many slaves they had. Spain comes to mind too, although several of their colonies simply chose to ignore the edict from the home office. The big boom was in the 1830s when Britain abolished slavery (with the might of the Navy to back it up), paying out a whole lotta pounds to slaveholders in the New World too. Brazil is recalled by me as one of the latest to ban. Of course, in Africa itself, slavery was a way of life before European and Asian traders even offered more money for export business in human beings, and it still has not fully abated. |
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