[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Shasown

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?

Saying that Europe isn't responsible for slavery because you made it illegal, is like saying America isn't responsible for Hiroshima after we dropped the bomb.

"Well we just dropped the bomb, what happened when it hit the ground isn't our fault, we had no control of it after we dropped it!"

Sorry, that argument doesn't fly.

America took responsibility after it dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, and stuck around to build Japan up to the great country it is today, we didn't skirt our responsibilities.