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Originally Posted by lostalex
Sorry but you are wrong. The english, while banning slavery in their own land, did nothing to prevent their citizens from profiting from and running businesses profiting from the slave trade. The UK has billions of dollars within it's economy made from the slave trade.
America didn't have ships. America was not kidnapping people from africa. That was Europe (including the UK).
Just because you didn't have slaves during that time (although you have plenty of slavery in your own history) does not absolve you from the responsibility of creating the system which enabled slavery in North and South America.
Get it right.
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No, YOU need to get it right -go back and read what you posted FGS. You quite clearly stated that Britain
CREATED the slave trade, when this was patently untrue. You also appear to be suggesting that America is totally innocent of any slave trafficking because it "didn't have ships"
Oh my lawd you're a hoot. I would also remind you that there was really no such thing as an "American" 250 years ago - you were all just a collection of immigrants from many countries, mostly from EUROPE, and certainly not exclusively from England! I also believe that they arrived on the shores of America by SHIP, unless you're suggesting there was another mode of transport in existence at that time of which I am not aware
I also note your absence of any denials about my assertions of the considerable damage America has caused, not only by the genocide of the original native population of the lands it
STOLE , but also to the rest of the world - I gave you some examples and I await your comments with interest.
If you're going to fling such accusations out about other countries, you should do it with "manos limpias", otherwise don't expect to be taken seriously or shown any respect.
America would be bankrupt if they ever had to pay out compensation for the havoc and damage they have caused to so many countries and peoples.