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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: gun carrry on bikes
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:19:00 -0400
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On 9/16/2024 11:19 AM, AMuzi 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/

Right. And people are comfortable talking about the glories of ancient 
Rome and Greece without emphasizing that their societies could not have 
run well without slavery, which was probably universal back then.

Again, my remarks do not mean I approve of slavery!

-- 
- Frank Krygowski