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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maceng2 who wrote (7731)	10/20/2006 7:07:35 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36918

You're getting quite testy lately? R U ok? Perhaps you're taking your role as an environmental hero too seriously. "We stopped slavery without having a war as part of the process. Thanks to that war many British slave traders were put out of business. "To begin with the Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch were the main slave traders but by the 1730s the British Atlantic slave trade was in full swing. For the rest of that century (and until abolition in 1807) the British became the world's leading slave traders. Between 1700 and 1810 they transported about 3.4 million Africans. Even today, after the horrors of the 20th century these remain astonishing figures. Slave trading in Britain started in London and Bristol but between 1750 and 1780 almost three-quarters of the British slave trade was financed by Liverpool merchants. During this period Liverpool was the biggest slave trading port in the world. Lancaster was the greatest of the smaller slave trading ports in Britain making it the fourth biggest after the big three; Liverpool, London and Bristol." garstangfairtrade.org.uk