Whatever or whoever started it, slavery more than thrived once the Brits were ousted. Plantation owners weren't exactly turning their backs on all that free labour after 1776. In fact it was a necessary part of the plantation system in the South; without slaves, American cotton wouldn't have been competitive in world markets.
The thing about institutionalized slavery in pre-bellum US is that, unlike most other nations where slavery was legal (and there were many) slaves could never buy their freedom in the US. There were no free black persons below the Mason - Dixon Line by law. That makes US slavery different from every form of slavery before or since. I don't know that Britain can be blamed for that... Cheers, frank On November 17, 2015 5:03:08 PM EST, "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]> wrote: >On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:55 PM, P.J. Alling ><[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't know what weed you're smoking but slavery, prior to England >> suppressing it was ubiquitous, in human society > >I don't smoke. > >Slavery may have been "ubiquitous," but it was Britain that brought it >to North America, for the profit of British companies. That can not >be denied. > > >Dan Matyola >http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -- Henri Cartier-Bresson Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
