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YES to both of your comments. During this colonialism period it wasn't "polite" to bring up such subjects in England. In fact, recently, I've been accused of being "anti-English" in this forum just for stating facts if I mention there is a "downside" to English history (all while the accusing poster is semi-secretly agreeing that what I say is true). Go figure.

sounds pretty consistent

I wouldn't say the American Revolution prolonged slavery, circumstances unique to the slave economy in the US ensured that no matter what happened. In the US believe it or not they did take care of their slaves relative to the Spanish or Portugese or even the British slave colonies in the Caribbean, the living conditions in these places were much tougher and generally these slaves would be worked to death with in years I think mostly harvesting sugarcane. They weren't imported with their families, they were disposable. In the US slaves picked mostly cotton, tobacco and rice to a lesser degree. Cotton is very labor intensive but requires a year-round workforce which needed to be housed and taken care of to some degree as they were considered a large investment, tobacco is way less labor intensive and slaves in these areas were more likely to work alongside Europeans and be allowed to have families. Rice harvesting was unique as it was a skill primarily possessed by the African women not the men, it was a crop they didn't have as much success in but gave more reason for the importation of African women which was unique compared to other slave societies. Slavery evolved in America into it's final chattel form, it was more company owned slaves and indentured servitude at the beginning with the hope of one day working your way to freedom. The Revolution gave way to a lot of manumission, more so than would of happened otherwise. Basically the US had a huge domestic slave population because it didn't work its slaves to death like the Portuguese or Spanish who imported far more slaves from Africa to their colonies but the profits from sugar were high enough to make them disposable. In the US, the huge population of the slaves became reason in itself to continue the institution given that they couldn't fathom what to do after.

Yes, it was probably better for some slaves in North America than it was in the Caribbean or South America.

Try telling that to somebody under involuntary servitude, though, who had just gotten whipped for not picking enough cotton in Georgia.

We weren't kind to the Native Americans in the past---both with foreknowledge and without it. In many cases, our treatment of Native Americans still sucks.

But we have to move on from history.

To get this tread back to mr. Trump here is a piece written by the paleoconservative Paul Gottfried about whether or not the Donald could dislodge the neocons and end their hold on American foreign policy.

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pol ... ,Undecided

I told you all about 4 months ago that the US Republicans should have taken this bigot more seriously.

Imagine Trump responsible for the most powerful nation on earth. he is visibly all Id and Ego.

God obviously speaks directly to him as there is no other explanation for his intransigent self belief...
Caligula will ride again

Getting scared yet....... ?