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Originally Posted by lostalex
i did not say that britain alone CREATED the slave trade. I mean Europe as a continent, Colonialism. I know you brits like to separate yourselves from the European continent, but at the time, you were all scrambling to conquer as many lands as possible, and slavery was part of that strategy.
For Europe to deny it's responsibilities is outrageous. The vast majority of Natives killed in the Americas (north and south) and all other colonies were killed by diseases, not by war.
All Slavery in the Americas (north and south) was implemented by European colonialism. You made it, it's your design, and the consequences fall on your shoulders.
To deny it, is simply ignorant.
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Right so the fact we had abolished slavery in the UK and the British Empire, made it illegal to profit from slavery anywhere within the British Empire, means its our fault that the US still had legalised slavery for nearly fourty years after us.
Isnt that a bit like heaping all the blame for that debacle in Indo-China on the French?
Incidentally blaming all slavery in the americas on the Europeans is simply ignoring the facts, go look at Native American and Meso-American cultures, I think you will find slavery existed in both prior to the arrival of the Europeans.