slaves could never buy their freedom in the US.
That's simply not true. While it was difficult and due to the way
Chattel slavery was enforced, the slaves owner would have to give
permission, but there are quite a few former slaves who bought their
freedom, and later the freedom of their wives and children.
On 11/17/2015 10:04 PM, knarf wrote:
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
--
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve
immortality through not dying.
-- Woody Allen
--
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.
