r16
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you know those loaded questions at press conferences . A journalist takes the stage and voices his/her political manifesto for 45 minutes straight and as a result doesn't get invited to the next one . During random reading on Star Wars ı came across an essay of sorts on slavery . Nobody is ever to take me seriously and my convictions are simplistic but let me arrange the field first . ı can seriously understand it can create social discord in societies in transformation and the like . No slaves allowed in the Britain of 1700s for Master Tom might call a doctor for his farmhand Bill who has fallen ill . If Bill is a good slave ... He has been bought or can be sold for good money , he is an investment . Yet nobody cares for the neighbouring crofter Will , if Will dies his family will starve and his farm will be bought by Master Tom , sorta cheaper . The judge Richard can imagine something called capitalism is the thing of future and Will is to be kept content for the moment before Richard can conjure up a court case on Will's debts . Yet Richard allows Master Tom to have a hundred Bills in the Caribbean or even partake in the Africa trade to buy and sell a thousand Bills . This seems to be a thing for all those maritime states , France and Netherlands . Then America happens ... Allow me qoute
The new American nation, the world’s first successful republic and the first place to provide political rights for substantial numbers of citizens, was a slaveholder’s republic. The irony of American slave-owners such as Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and George Mason fighting to gain their liberty was not lost on British Tories, who mocked the American revolutionaries: not a few Englishmen read the Declaration of Independence, mostly written by Thomas Jefferson (who famously owned about 150 slaves at the time), and wondered, as did Samuel Johnson, “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of ... ?"
of course Blacks as the Spanish are likely to call them . The American democracy , Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death than probably leads to an abolishment of the peculiar institution in the American territories of the European colonial powers , awesomely butressing their defences against the virile young American state , hence joining the US would immediately mean slavery for the now freed population . This happens because those European countries are not run by democracy and slave owners can not vote . America even comes after Russia in delegalizing slavery , though there's this war that kills masses of people , distracting Washington on the way . The percentage of casualties imply 6.5 million Americans would have to die if it was done today . It might indeed have happened because of certain requirements of the US Constitution . Supposedly if the Confederates had not broken away with Fort Sumter they might have voted down any proposals to abolish slavery . Am firmly of the opinion that war was more about North having had enough with South's trade preferences than whether coloured people were human or not .
there's a Brussels Treaty of 1890 that aims to stop the African slave trading , certainly before the Belgian Congo with lazy workers' hands cut off . The RN had starting attacking slavers long before , hurting merchant fleets of commercial rivals and Prize Money was a thing , being the way fortunes were made . The Europeans join a mad rush to free all Africa from slavery . The rest of the world becomes available by the time the League of Nations agree on The Slavery Convention of 1926 , but let's say the damage of the Great War was far too much for the likes of UK and France to go and challenge Japan in a race to liberate China and stuff . Finally the big one : ... "enslavement was the first violation of human rights listed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948" where America has a monoply on the nukes and the B-36 to strike anywhere in the world within a day or two . So , why the slavery was necessary to oppose for those Nothern Europeans without ships ? They all being as Christian or White or West as their slave owning neighbours . Now that the very word slave is supposed to be deriven from the Slavs captured by their Viking ancestors ... and myself always considering the Germans as "North" and obviously the 1940s ... When they matched almost 4 centuries of slave trade in sheer numbers with "importing" millions and millions of forced labourers during the WW II .
short version , why and how the slavery ended ?
The new American nation, the world’s first successful republic and the first place to provide political rights for substantial numbers of citizens, was a slaveholder’s republic. The irony of American slave-owners such as Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and George Mason fighting to gain their liberty was not lost on British Tories, who mocked the American revolutionaries: not a few Englishmen read the Declaration of Independence, mostly written by Thomas Jefferson (who famously owned about 150 slaves at the time), and wondered, as did Samuel Johnson, “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of ... ?"
of course Blacks as the Spanish are likely to call them . The American democracy , Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death than probably leads to an abolishment of the peculiar institution in the American territories of the European colonial powers , awesomely butressing their defences against the virile young American state , hence joining the US would immediately mean slavery for the now freed population . This happens because those European countries are not run by democracy and slave owners can not vote . America even comes after Russia in delegalizing slavery , though there's this war that kills masses of people , distracting Washington on the way . The percentage of casualties imply 6.5 million Americans would have to die if it was done today . It might indeed have happened because of certain requirements of the US Constitution . Supposedly if the Confederates had not broken away with Fort Sumter they might have voted down any proposals to abolish slavery . Am firmly of the opinion that war was more about North having had enough with South's trade preferences than whether coloured people were human or not .
there's a Brussels Treaty of 1890 that aims to stop the African slave trading , certainly before the Belgian Congo with lazy workers' hands cut off . The RN had starting attacking slavers long before , hurting merchant fleets of commercial rivals and Prize Money was a thing , being the way fortunes were made . The Europeans join a mad rush to free all Africa from slavery . The rest of the world becomes available by the time the League of Nations agree on The Slavery Convention of 1926 , but let's say the damage of the Great War was far too much for the likes of UK and France to go and challenge Japan in a race to liberate China and stuff . Finally the big one : ... "enslavement was the first violation of human rights listed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948" where America has a monoply on the nukes and the B-36 to strike anywhere in the world within a day or two . So , why the slavery was necessary to oppose for those Nothern Europeans without ships ? They all being as Christian or White or West as their slave owning neighbours . Now that the very word slave is supposed to be deriven from the Slavs captured by their Viking ancestors ... and myself always considering the Germans as "North" and obviously the 1940s ... When they matched almost 4 centuries of slave trade in sheer numbers with "importing" millions and millions of forced labourers during the WW II .
short version , why and how the slavery ended ?
