When Did Slavery End In The United States

Haha, someone should show this to Yahoo. Might make cover joke page.

That was bad too but importing boatloads of negros was worse.

Processed cheese doesn't rape white women.

In my opinion, there are several reasons. The main ones:

1- Because that's what US itself exports.
See, US cultural exports to most places in the world are... movies. Since movies says slavery was a big deal, most people thinks it is (and let's not fool ourselves, it was THAT big). When you see "in US people kills their presidents so they can have slaves" then... well, you get the point.
2- Because it was one the latest in abolish slavery
At least between the most important countries in the world, US was the last one (or one of the latest) in abolish slavery
3- Because many people confuses racial segregation with slavery
And here comes 1- to help the confusion. Many people thinks that racism in US was slavery, so it's not uncommon to find people who thinks slavery was legal until second half of XX century.

As for the ancient civilizations and slavery, you can't compare a modern country to values that were common at some point. Furthermore, Rome and Greece slavery could be way more benign that slavery in America. And I don't mean America as US, I mean America as America.

A curious factoid: in Argentina and Chile there is no black people. Both countries were between the first in abolish slavery in America, so all of a sudden slaves found themselves without work, home, food... nothing. Therefore, they became cannon fodder in the Independence Wars or did all kind of risky works or moved to Brazil... to be slaves again. The last black population in Argentina died in the Yellow Fever Epidemic due to poor sanitary conditions and the fact they were the only ones willing to work removing the bodies of death people.

Another fact: most of Europe abolished slavery for economic reasons, not moral reasons. But they didn't abolish it in the colonies, so it's a double standard to the very least, both France and UK had slaves until well into XX century

Slavery is alive and well in of all places Africa!

QFT.

All Americans are financial slaves. Slavery is alive and well, it just has a new name in the US of A, and it's called DEBT SLAVERY.

processed cheese violates my intestines

Over!!??

Somebody forgot to tell Wall Street.

December 1865

Things MUST be slow around here when one of MY threads is still on the front page 24 hours later...

Now we are voluntarily enslaved ...

never ended.

I don't know where you get your facts from but check up on the Slave Trade Act 1807 and on William Wilberforce.

worse than genocide? no...

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