Europeans were a bit ahead of the mark on banning slaves, actually. The South was one of the last Western nation's to abolish it, mainly because their economy was almost entirely based on slave picked cash crops like cotton or tobacco.

Edit: actually I'm a bit mistaken, England and the US ban it at roughly the same time. New York bans it as early as 1799, just a decade after the Revolution was won. England bans it in 1807. There's a few slaves in northern states as late as 1840, but their numbers are in the hundreds... Nothing like the millions in the south as of 1804.

Kinda breaks the whole "nation built on slavery" myth, though you can certainly argue that the colonies were built on slavery. We already know imperialism is bad though, that's why we oppose Globalists.

Europeans were a bit ahead of the mark on banning slaves, actually. The South was one of the last Western nation's to abolish it, mainly because their economy was almost entirely based on slave picked cash crops like cotton or tobacco.

Edit: actually I'm a bit mistaken, England and the US ban it at roughly the same time. New York bans it as early as 1799, just a decade after the Revolution was won. England bans it in 1807. There's a few slaves in northern states as late as 1840, but their numbers are in the hundreds... Nothing like the millions in the south as of 1804.

Kinda breaks the whole "nation built on slavery" myth, though you can certainly argue that the colonies were built on slavery. We already know imperialism is bad though, that's why we oppose Globalists.

Europeans were a bit ahead of the mark on banning slaves, actually. The South was one of the last Western nation's to abolish it, mainly because their economy was almost entirely based on slave picked cash crops like cotton or tobacco.