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Thread #96748   Message #1895698
Posted By: Rapparee
29-Nov-06 - 12:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: Britain's shame of slave trade.
Subject: RE: BS: Britain's shame of slave trade.
Okay. Britain was doing more than any other nation on Earth (as far as you and I know).

But my point remains: Britain sold trading goods to the slavers and used the raw materials of slavery to create profit for itself. Britain supported the Confederacy during the US Civil War, to its profit (for example: supplying arms and ammunition to BOTH sides, and let's not forget "...down the Mersey ways she slipped and then/Liverpool fitted her with guns and men", and of course there were those observers with the military of both sides who were ready to advise the British Government which way to jump.

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?