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Originally Posted by ltnt
2,000,000 slaves gathered by England, transported in a living hell, those that lived were shackled and chained together for life. Not one response that takes issue with Englands participation in this part of history.
Absolutely astounding!
England, coming to the realisation that slavery was an abomination, abolished slavery in its own territory and then warred on slavers on the high seas. There has never been any celebration of Slavery in Great Britain and you would be hard put to find a single person who believed that slavery was worth celebrating or commemorating. To compare idiot rednecks who flaunt a symbol of degradation and evil with a nation which abolished slavery as an abomination and an affront to all decency is idiotic. Speaking of idiotic, I see that some here have been claiming that the Civil War was nothing to do with slavery. Anybody got any idea what this particular quote is from?
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We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.
That in this free government all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding states.