Interesting article.
So who made all the money?
12.5 million from Africa were enslaved. A significant percentage died on their way here.
British Parliament created 100 laws to foster it.
It started in the US before we had declared our Independence. British brought them here in 1619.
1776 Declared Independence
1842-1855 the Irish Famine, 1.5 million Irish came to the U.S. ("Heck yeah we will fight to defeat that God forsaken British enterprise," they said when they got here? The Irish got here and straightened out this country! Also built the infrastructure.
1861-1865 Civil War
1861 Lincoln Freed the slaves.
https://heritagecollections.parliament.uk/stories/the-transatlantic-slave-trade/#:~:text=The%20slave%20trade%20benefited%20many,and%20armies%20of%20British%20workers.
So was part of Our Declaration of Independence also related to slavery?
The Quakers in Britain were the first to object to slavery. I knew there was some reason I always had respect for them. Learned that in grade school history?
You know one of my childhood friends, I won't tell his religion, he believed in Parliament as a form of government over ours? I was shocked to hear that. But later in life it puts a lot in perspective about that groups behavior.
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Off topics.
1. And so you have to get past a large section of Yemen to get into the Suez Canal. We just bombed the hell out of them.
2. An article about a new book by Warren Buffett says he shop lifted a lot from Sears when a boy. A whole bag of golf clubs and the bag!
3. So if the Northern half of Ireland is now called the UK does it mean that if England goes to war Northern Irish get conscripted to fight and die in it? Look at the timing of it. You know if Trump can tinker with Israel how come the United States can't do something with regard to Irish Independence? All of these other countries we empty our wallets for and die for and we do nothing for Ireland? Joe Biden is about as Irish As a dork from a stork.
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