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Thread #121373   Message #2649572
Posted By: CarolC
05-Jun-09 - 08:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: What is The American Way of Life?
Subject: RE: BS: What is The American Way of Life?
It would definitely have ended long before it did in the US...

"(In) 1834...the British Parliament's Slavery Abolition Act finally abolished slavery in all parts of the British Empire."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Canada

And they didn't have to fight a war to make it happen, either.