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MarvelousCaptn 08/01/19 5:57:53 PM #23:	darkknight109 posted... kind9 posted... Don't blame America, blame Christianity. Slavery is condoned in the bible. Which also stipulates that you're supposed to set slaves free after 7 years and treat them well, two things the Americans of old never did. So yes, it very much is an American thing - other predominantly Christian nations (along with much of the non-Christian world) had mostly already outlawed slavery or were rapidly headed that way at the time America decided to start it up. The US was very much a "late bloomer" in that regard. It's worth noting that at least some historians have argued that the American Revolution was carried out largely to preserve the institution of slavery. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009/6/9/740365/- https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/books/review/04staples.html That said, slavery wasn't finally outlawed across British colonies until 1834, fewer than 30 years before the Emancipation Proclamation. While I haven't extensively researched a timeline, I kinda expect that America and the UK were having similar debates around the same time... then again, even the founding fathers who criticized slavery were often slaveholders themselves (including Alexander Hamilton, who also bought and sold slaves on behalf of relatives). https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/10/correcting-hamilton/ --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There has never been a Vox link worth clicking and there never will be. <cite>MarvelousCaptn posted [p:925491671] in "Mayb... [t:77885394]...</cite> <quote>darkknight109 posted...</cite> <quote>kind9 posted...</cite> <quote>Don't blame America, blame Christianity. Slavery is condoned in the bible.</quote> Which also stipulates that you're supposed to set slaves free after 7 years and treat them well, two things the Americans of old never did. So yes, it very much is an American thing - other predominantly Christian nations (along with much of the non-Christian world) had mostly already outlawed slavery or were rapidly headed that way at the time America decided to start it up. The US was very much a "late bloomer" in that regard.</quote> It's worth noting that at least some historians have argued that the American Revolution was carried out largely to preserve the institution of slavery. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009/6/9/740365/- https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/books/review/04staples.html That said, slavery wasn't finally outlawed across British colonies until 1834, fewer than 30 years before the Emancipation Proclamation. While I haven't extensively researched a timeline, I kinda expect that America and the UK were having similar debates around the same time... then again, even the founding fathers who criticized slavery were often slaveholders themselves (including Alexander Hamilton, who also bought and sold slaves on behalf of relatives). https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/10/correcting-hamilton/ --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There has never been a Vox link worth clicking and there never will be.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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