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Thread #96748   Message #1895729
Posted By: Snuffy
29-Nov-06 - 01:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: Britain's shame of slave trade.
Subject: RE: BS: Britain's shame of slave trade.
If Britain was truly opposed to the slave trade, why would it continue trading with the slave-owning Southern states before and during the US Civil War?

Probably for the same reason that many US businesses continued trading with the slave-owning Southern states before and during the Civil War.