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Originally Posted by klinton
dont forget about British colonial empire enslaving people for centuries !   |
You mean like every other society in the world had done since the beginning of humanity?
How about you make mention of the fact that it was the English who were one of the first to move to abolish slavery in modern times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery
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Slavery has existed, in one form or another, through the whole of recorded human history?as have, in various periods, movements to free large or distinct groups of slaves.
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One of the most significant milestones in the campaign to abolish slavery throughout the world occurred in England in 1772, with British judge Lord Mansfield, whose opinion in Somersett's Case was widely taken to have held that slavery was illegal in England. This judgement also laid down the principle that slavery contracted in other jurisdictions (such as the American colonies) could not be enforced in England.[215] In 1777, Vermont became the first portion of what would become the United States to abolish slavery (at the time Vermont was an independent nation). In 1794, under the Jacobins, Revolutionary France abolished slavery.[216] There were celebrations in 2007 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the slave trade in the United Kingdom through the work of the British Anti-Slavery Society.
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