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On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:19:43 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>On 9/16/2024 9:24 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>> On 9/16/2024 6:32 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:
>>> John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I don't ember where but I think I read that if a Royal 
>>>> Navy ship
>>>> captured a slave ship the Slaver Ship would be (by the 
>>>> Navy) and money
>>>> credited to the officers and Crew of the capturing ship.
>>>
>>> after legal abolition may well have been a bounty, pre 
>>> that no as the
>>> political classes and so on where pro it or at least not 
>>> pro ships
>>> capturing other nations ships and causing diplomatic 
>>> tensions!
>> Forgive a slightly off-topic question, but:
>> 
>> Early America had lots of slavery. It was critical to the 
>> economy of America's southern states, and eventually caused 
>> our Civil War. Because of that (and other factors) there's 
>> much current American discussion of the horrors of slavery.
>> 
>> But many, many societies had slavery, including the British 
>> Empire. I've tried to ask how slavery is currently discussed 
>> in other such countries. IIRC I've never gotten a good 
>> answer. In at least one prominent case, I was accused of 
>> condoning slavery by merely asking my question - an 
>> astonishing logical disconnect.
>> 
>> So Roger, how much is Britain's past association with 
>> slavery currently discussed? What are the attitudes?
>> 
>> 
>
>I've noticed that as well.
>The loudest voices denouncing our past are amazingly silent 
>on current events; slavery in the Gulf, Sudan, Nigeria, 
>minors all across USA and so on.
>
>https://data.traffickinginstitute.org/

Lets see now...it is all right to drop two atom bombs on their heads
and kill some 246,000, nearly all civilians,  and enslaving 1 is bad,
bad, bad?
-- 
Cheers,

John B.