"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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The Magnum wrote:

Americans enslaved blacks and nearly wiped out the Native Americans
because
they wanted to take the land... the wars with the north and south,
confederates and yankies were some of the nastiest and uncivilised
conflicts
in your history and you were well established as Americans at that time
and
was not down to the British Empire.... i dont know where you learned
your
history but wherever it was.. if it was... id sue them (hope that wasnt
too
cheap a shot)


Actually, different tribes were constantly fighting, and took slaves
when they didn't just kill them. Later, they discovered that they could
sell or trade their slaves for things that they wanted with the ships
that arrived on the African coast to trade goods. A lot of those ships
were from England, and they took the slaves to other places to sell
them.

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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

So Michael, the point you make here is that the different tribes in America
were already into slavery and used them to barter with the English for goods
and suchlike therefore making my point that slavery wasnt a result of the
good old British Colonies... They may have been involved in the
transportation of slaves for profilt but that wasnt the point. The previous
post said, or tried to imply it was the British Colonies that introduced
slavery where that simply wasnt the case.

Also most of the slaves who ended up in Britain werent treated quite as
badly in comparison although they probably didnt think so at the time.

Anyhows this has lead a little off topic as so many threads do, but its nice
to actually have a converstaion about things rather than cheap insults.
Thank you..