Malachi151
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he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce; and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, & murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
It was just rhetoric to get support from the French.
Look at the facts.
#1 The British outlawed slavery in Britain in 1772, 4 years later the Americans revolted.
#2 Many of the founding fathers owned slaves and the revolutionaries were disporportionately slave owners.
#3 Some of the founders were actually slave traders, such and Franklin.
#4 The British immediately offered freedom to blacks that fought against the colonists when the war started, yet the coloniests did not and in fact refused to allow any blacks to fight in the army and actually made conditions more harsh on the slaves during the war.
#5 The colonists finally allowed blacks to fight towards the end when they needed all the help they could get.
#6 The British were the first to outlaw the slave trade.
#7 The Americans didn't outlaw slavery until the 1860s, almost 100 years AFTER the British outlawed it.
#8 Thomas Jefferson owned over 200 slaves in his lifetime and only freed 5, the ones that he fathered. He kept his own children as slaves while he was alive.
If the Americans were so appauled at slavery as to revolt over the issue, then why did they keep for almost 100 years longer than the British? Why was slavery bigger in America than almost any other recorded instance of slavery in the history of the world?
It was just rhetoric to get support from the French.
Look at the facts.
#1 The British outlawed slavery in Britain in 1772, 4 years later the Americans revolted.
#2 Many of the founding fathers owned slaves and the revolutionaries were disporportionately slave owners.
#3 Some of the founders were actually slave traders, such and Franklin.
#4 The British immediately offered freedom to blacks that fought against the colonists when the war started, yet the coloniests did not and in fact refused to allow any blacks to fight in the army and actually made conditions more harsh on the slaves during the war.
#5 The colonists finally allowed blacks to fight towards the end when they needed all the help they could get.
#6 The British were the first to outlaw the slave trade.
#7 The Americans didn't outlaw slavery until the 1860s, almost 100 years AFTER the British outlawed it.
#8 Thomas Jefferson owned over 200 slaves in his lifetime and only freed 5, the ones that he fathered. He kept his own children as slaves while he was alive.
If the Americans were so appauled at slavery as to revolt over the issue, then why did they keep for almost 100 years longer than the British? Why was slavery bigger in America than almost any other recorded instance of slavery in the history of the world?
