By Jerry PDX
tuesday, december 16, 2025 at 8:25:00 p.m. est
The U.S. practiced slavery for about 80 years. Previous to 1776, you can blame those self-righteous British who brag about how they never practiced "actual" slavery on their little island. The Irish, Scots, indentured servants and shanghaied sailors might dispute that, but they can say they never mass imported negroes to work in fields. Eighty years might be the briefest period of time any country, empire, or kingdom practiced slavery before ending it. Considering others had it for centuries or even thousands of years, that's not a long period.
Countries in africa all have laws against slavery, but it still goes on on a mass scale. Laws are just words on paper. As long as there is a wink-wink, nod-nod acceptance and no enforcement, laws mean nothing.
The U.S. and Britain were the only two countries that not only ended slavery within their borders, or their colonies, but also exerted diplomatic and military pressure on other countries to stop the practice.
N.S.: I am convinced that a nigerian classmate in my nurse aide class in Far Rockaway in 1998, was a slavocrat. She told me that whenever she beat her eight-year-old little girl servant, she always explained to her why she was beating her. What's the English-language translation for an eight-year-old servant?
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jerry pdx
Let me guess, this "nigerian" thought that since she explained why she beat the slave...theirs was a kinder gentler form of slavery. Whether they are from wakanda or home grown here in the USA, they always got that childish logic.
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