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Thread #157420   Message #3716568
Posted By: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
14-Jun-15 - 01:24 PM
Thread Name: BS: Racism in US police (Ferguson)
Subject: RE: BS: Racism in US police (Ferguson)
To our British snoots who criticize America for their racism:

"To start with, British traders supplied slaves for the Spanish and Portuguese colonists in America. However, as British settlements in the Caribbean and North America grew, often through wars with European countries such as Holland, Spain and France, British slave traders increasingly supplied British colonies

The exact number of British ships that took part in the Slave Trade will probably never be known but, in the 245 years between Hawkins first voyage and the abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807, merchants in Britain despatched about 10,000 voyages to Africa for slaves, with merchants in other parts of the British Empire perhaps fitting out a further 1,150 voyages.

Historian, Professor David Richardson, has calculated that British ships carried 3.4 million or more enslaved Africans to the Americas."

Source

(Not that you even care!)....and then you pompously lecture us!!!

GfS