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If you want to argue there were Americans who were ahead of the curve on abolition that is certainly true. Jefferson saw the writing on the wall 30 years before 1807. But, unfortunately, as a nation … (View Post)

Yeah Brazil was the worst of the worst in both quantity and length. Rio De Janeiro alone had more slaves come through it's port than most other nations of the world (including the US). It's grim. (View Post)

But it does claim we were a global leader in abolition, which isn't true either. (View Post)

I honestly don't disagree. There's a reason the US was late to abolish slavery and it's called the US Senate which was a great idea for most things but terrible in that it gave the slaveholding state… (View Post)

First off, you know Heart of Darkness was fiction, right? I never really studied slavery outside of US, the UK, the Barbary Coast, Portugal and a little bit of the Carribbean (primarily Haiti) so thi… (View Post)