Slavery in the UK

[Al Liszt]

And, the year 1807 is key in the new nation across the Atlantic too because
slavery was all but ended, the abolitionists nearly prevailed in the two
decades that followed the establishment of the the federal union in 1787,
but...as we all know, several forces against labor's efforts prevented the
movement from abolishing slavery, restored profits to the evil industry and
made slave labor a foundation of the southern economy, these forces were
mechanical, in the English looms, spinners that could take on more and more
cotton as they cranked on under steam power, and that cotton gin of
Whitney, that made lands useless as useful as the sea islands where the
long fiber seeds were removed by slaves, and that machine to remove
Indians, push west, these forces, pushed west from the mother England, the
islands, then to the sea bordering states, then west toward Mississippi,
where a glut of enslaved labor could be newly exploited, these forces
prevailed against the better consciences of powerful men who thought to put
an end to the evil industry, but would take a gradualism to the table, men
like Franklin, and to get the deal done would settle for a non interference
agreement on the import of enslaved labor by congress till 1807. Of course,
as Douglass tells us, by this time, a new race of Americans, not Africans,
not hardly African American, has been engendered. The intellectuals turned
their backs on labor once again. Again, as Douglass, who is labor become an
intellectual, this partnership, of workers and the most civilized in the
society is both rare and necessary if the forces of mechanized profit
and evil are to confronted, and moved by history.

On Saturday, May 25, 2013, Henry M wrote:

> May 25, 1807: The Slave Trade Act, passed by Parliament, abolishes slave
> trade – but not slavery – in the British Empire. Slavery was officially
> abolished in 1833, with the exceptions of “Territories in the Possession of
> the East India Company, or to the Island of Ceylon, or to the Island of
> Saint Helena.”
> Yours truly,
> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> Henry Musikar, CISSP
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>
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