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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: gun carrry on bikes
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:08:58 -0500
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On 9/16/2024 1:19 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> 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!
> 

Understood.
It's universal to all cultures until William Wilberforce.

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Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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