To: Brumar89 who wrote (3879 ) 4/27/2010 9:39:22 AM From: Solon 1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) | Respond to "Thats absolutely not true ""Williams thus argued that British West Indian production was pivotal to the formation of capital in Britain and laid the foundations for the Industrial Revolution in Europe. The study therefore placed the Caribbean at the center of the Atlantic economic system. The even more revolutionary assertion was that the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of the slaves occurred less due to the role of the abolitionists and other humanitarians than to the overall decline of the British West Indian sugar economy at the end of the 18th century. With the separation of the United States at the end of the First British Empire, and the publication of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776), there emerged the enlightened belief that slave labor was inefficient, unprofitable, and an impediment to economic growth. "--Selwyn H.H. CarringtonRemember that almost all of the slave owners in the south were Christian Evangelicals. Books can and have been written about their peculiar mind set of sin and hell and the psychology of their guilt and projection. Trying to live tribal superstitions in an industrial age of science is a mind and heart splitting endeavor. Call it a social sickness if you will. But it was a sickness of the most incurable sort. Indeed, in order to end this Christian Slave Exploitation, the United States had to fight the bloodiest battle in human history where more lives were lost (92,000,000 plus) than World War One, World War Two, the war of 1812, the American Revolution, the Vietnam War..ALL COMBINED. "Its your surmise that he did so. "
