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I wouldn't say "long" before. They did before, but they were also the ones who created those colonies with slaves in the first place. They were also buying tho

I wouldn't say "long" before. They did before, but they were also the ones who created those colonies with slaves in the first place. They were also buying those slave made goods, continuing the triangle, even well after they abolished it in their homeland. So yes, they may have "ended" it at home, but they basically just outsourced their slavery to colonies they had setup.

Jensson 4y ago
> So yes, they may have "ended" it at home, but they basically just outsourced their slavery to colonies. This isn't true, if the American revolution hadn't happened then those slaves would have been freed peacefully already by 1833: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833 Or maybe that would have triggered an American revolution again because Americans love their slaves, I mean it happened that way as is...
- MrOwnPut 4y ago
  UK abolished slavery for themselves 30 years prior to the US abolishing it, mainly because their sugar plantations had lost their worth. But the UK still continued to buy US cotton, knowing full well it was enabling the slave trade to continue. And the most important point was they had setup all of these colonies with these systems in the first place.
  - Jensson 4y ago
    You said this: > we were the colony to finally collapse the system after many centuries of it being standard across the world. That is blatantly false. That was my point. You are right the Europeans weren't angels, but you were absolutely wrong there, America was the colony that was dragged kicking and screaming to abolish slavery long after everyone else had already done so, it absolutely wasn't the colony that finally collapsed the system of slavery it was pushed by everyone else to end it and then still had to go through a civil war doing it.
    - MrOwnPut 4y ago
      The American colonies supplied the Brits with cotton. The system was setup to do so by UK. UK was buying the slave picked cotton well after they abolished/outsourced slavery. The UK even continued slavery in Indian colonies until 1843. They only abolished sugar plantations because it was not profitable anymore. If the American colonies didn't rebel from the UK, they may have not abolished the cotton plantations themselves because they highly depended on it.
      - pixl97 4y ago
        The US didn't "actually" abolish slavery until the 1940s. This is only partially your fault for not knowing, the US school system turns a blind eye to neoslavery in the post war era with the technicality that slavery is still legal for prisoners and that pretty much any crime could lead you to be enslaved in the south if you were the incorrect race.

Jensson 4y ago

> So yes, they may have "ended" it at home, but they basically just outsourced their slavery to colonies. This isn't true, if the American revolution hadn't happened then those slaves would have been freed peacefully already by 1833: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833 Or maybe that would have triggered an American revolution again because Americans love their slaves, I mean it happened that way as is...

MrOwnPut 4y ago
UK abolished slavery for themselves 30 years prior to the US abolishing it, mainly because their sugar plantations had lost their worth. But the UK still continued to buy US cotton, knowing full well it was enabling the slave trade to continue. And the most important point was they had setup all of these colonies with these systems in the first place.
- Jensson 4y ago
  You said this: > we were the colony to finally collapse the system after many centuries of it being standard across the world. That is blatantly false. That was my point. You are right the Europeans weren't angels, but you were absolutely wrong there, America was the colony that was dragged kicking and screaming to abolish slavery long after everyone else had already done so, it absolutely wasn't the colony that finally collapsed the system of slavery it was pushed by everyone else to end it and then still had to go through a civil war doing it.
  - MrOwnPut 4y ago
    The American colonies supplied the Brits with cotton. The system was setup to do so by UK. UK was buying the slave picked cotton well after they abolished/outsourced slavery. The UK even continued slavery in Indian colonies until 1843. They only abolished sugar plantations because it was not profitable anymore. If the American colonies didn't rebel from the UK, they may have not abolished the cotton plantations themselves because they highly depended on it.
    - pixl97 4y ago
      The US didn't "actually" abolish slavery until the 1940s. This is only partially your fault for not knowing, the US school system turns a blind eye to neoslavery in the post war era with the technicality that slavery is still legal for prisoners and that pretty much any crime could lead you to be enslaved in the south if you were the incorrect race.