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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (3687)	3/21/2002 9:30:05 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

slavery has been illegal in these United States for the past 137 years Yep, you only took ~70 years to learn from us - not bad Trade was made illegal in/by Britain in 1791; not bad, when we were the ones who were making most profit from it - have many countries voluntarily ended their most profitable and dominant industry on ethical grounds? <in fact, have any??> Was it not you who so recently was making excuses for the tardiness of your people in learning some matters? Equality took a bit longer, I guess, like another 100 - these conservative things are slow, always arguing for the status quo, embedded interests holding up progress and preventing the right thing from being done... To be fair, Vermont did lead the way in the US, banning slavery in 1777 (I checked) - but Britain had a nice decree, in 1772, to the effect that "a slave is free the moment he breathes the air of England". And hypocrisy, nonsense. Your failure to understand is what. Slavery had been acceptable through history (still is, in a few areas) - that was my point. It was hardly something our poor innocent naive colonists needed to learn, many of them imported their slaves... The Brits took a lead in deciding maybe it really wasn't on. Such is progress. You were slower to reach the same conclusion. Hence my snipe at Bill when he used an equally irrelevant historical slur.