Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party
by hef19898 on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @12:51PM
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Didn't the British abolish slavery before the US?
Re:Andrew Yang Founds the Forward Party
by disneygibson on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @02:41PM
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The British could abolish slavery because they no longer had any real economic incentive to keep it, as they had lost their colonies. They also then proceeded to exploit labor in India in barely better conditions.
If Britain retained its American colonies (because the slave holding ones didn’t join the revolution) then abolition might not have happened at all.
Nothing is more nauseating that modern people looking upon the past with moral superiority.