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Edward_Teach 149 points ago +150 / -1

African slave merchants sold slaves for much longer than the US has been around.

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WinstonSmith1984 25 points ago +36 / -11

To be fair, we ended it here. The Brits started ending it (or at least the African, Arab slave trade) elsewhere decades earlier

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Tallsie 30 points ago +30 / -0

The Irish would like to have a word...

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ohwell316 0 points ago +3 / -3

Nah man, just servants.

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WinstonSmith1984 0 points ago +2 / -2

Be happy to, as one of them. Sometimes the Irish do the same crap as the blacks. "Oh, the [English/Whites/insert privileged groups here] started it by enslaving [insert victim group here]."

The Celts were more than happy to take slaves, as were the picts, scots, Danes, Angles, Saxons, Chinese, Indians, Africans, and every other group on earth over the last 100,000 years.

it's a natural human condition, often temporary but not always, throughout history.

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Italians_Invented_2A 7 points ago +12 / -5

No, it's Britain that was the first nation on earth to abolish slavery.

If taxes are slavery then we're all still slaves to this day.

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WinstonSmith1984 0 points ago +3 / -3

wrong. While Wikipedia is often suspect, the general facts are correct.

"The Blockade of Africa began in 1808 after the United Kingdom outlawed the Atlantic slave trade, making it illegal for British ships to transport slaves. The Royal Navy immediately established a presence off Africa to enforce the ban, called the West Africa Squadron. Although the ban initially applied only to British ships, Britain negotiated treaties with other countries to give the Royal Navy the right to intercept and search their ships for slaves.[1] The 1807 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves abolished the intercontinental slave trade in the United States but the ban was not widely enforced."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_Africa

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Pau1F01ey -8 points ago +17 / -25

Sorry but you’re being an idiot. The slave trade mostly ended in the West due to the Royal Navy’s new orders in the early 1800s to stop slave ships and liberate the slaves on board.

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Oggeo 2 points ago +3 / -1

Because they couldn't make on profit on slavery in the American colonies anymore.

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WinstonSmith1984 -1 points ago +2 / -3

Regardless of why, they did it 50 years before we did

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64-19-06-24-87 6 points ago +6 / -0

America freed more people than it enslaved

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stratocaster_patriot 21 points ago +21 / -0

And now Dems and blacks wear the kenta cloth of the people who sold slaves as a show of solidarity. Retards.

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StumpSmasher2 10 points ago +10 / -0

It really seems like the entire Democrat worldview hinges on two things:

  1. Total misunderstanding of history

  2. Inability to properly compare things

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Sexyqualiathoughts 23 points ago +24 / -1

The way I see it, every race has a history of crazies events or people that exist in it if we started treating people as individuals instead of a collective most of this bullshit would end overnight. Karl Marx, Stalin, Nicolás Maduro, Idi Amin Dada, Pol pot, Xi, Muammar Gaddafi, the only color that unites them all is green the list goes on and on yet here we are in 2020 with the most technologically advanced society, that has the ability to create real prosperity and we are played like a fiddle to hate each other, it's sickening.

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MAGANatsFan 6 points ago +6 / -0

This

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BeefyBelisarius 19 points ago +19 / -0

Mostly to Arab slavers who both bought slaves from Africa and raided for slaves in Europe centuries before Europeans started buying slaves from the Africans. And after the transatlantic slave trade ended, the Arabs continued to run the much larger trans-Sahara and Indian Ocean slave trades.

Funny how schools only teach about the smallest African slave route. And they don't mention that the vast majority from that route went to South America or the Caribbean. Or that Jefferson signed a ban on slave imports, so the US was only involved in the international slave trade for 19 years, yet somehow catches all the blame.

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stratocaster_patriot 15 points ago +15 / -0

Europeans fought back and now we learn in history class that Christianity was barbaric and brought more death and destruction than anything else in history.

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OnlyAmerica 4 points ago +4 / -0

Pinochet was right about the commies, they are postmodern Islamists.

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Theyreallinonit 19 points ago +19 / -0

Still do.

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D_Plainview 5 points ago +5 / -0

Not if you’re Obama

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stratocaster_patriot 4 points ago +4 / -0

Looking at you fat sweaty tits Oprah