re: #31 UberInfidel67

He concludes: “A legitimate question for historians is how soon the blight of slavery would have been terminated peacefully in America, as in Great Britain and other civilized societies.”

I thought America led the charge to end slavery. Did GB do it before us? And WHAT other civilized societies?

Great Britain had outlawed the purchase and selling of humans in GB. They also outlawed it in any of their countries in Africa. They sent their navy to blockade the African coasts and any British slaver had the slaves released. HOWEVER, their sugar islands still allowed the purchase of and selling of slaves so long as they weren’t imported. Britain also allowed serfdom. If someone didn’t want to pay their servants, they simply ‘deducted’ any broken, tarnished, torn, items from their meager pay. There is more than one definition of slave.