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Originally Posted by AmericanDreamer
Sins and atrocities?? One shouldn't point their fingers at America and blame it for slavery because it was going on for a long time before we ever signed our Declaration of Independence. A bit of knowledge goes a long way. Look for the origins of the slave trade in history.
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Oh you won't get him to admit that most of the slave trade was perpetuated by African warlords who sold captives to Dutch traders. You also won't get him to recognize that many slaves were also white debtors and slavery was their sentence. And he'll go rabid when you point out that America was more than humane with their slaves or that even before the declaration was signed, slavery was already a hot political topic and that America, even before it's birth as a nation was already moving toward discussion about the end of a centuries old practice.
Don't let facts get in the way of a good victim fit.