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To: Solon who wrote (3934)	4/29/2010 4:31:17 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

YOU culled that "argument" out of a long essay I posted If you post stuff I consider bogus I'll respond to it. Don't blame me for commenting on something YOU posted. I disagree profoundly that "there isn't much merit for that argument". You are simply wrong. Economics WAS a MAJOR factor in the ending of slave trading. That flies in the face of facts that I've already posted ... including the rising prices of slaves. -------------------------------------------- Although white abolitionists were important in the various campaigns that eventually resulted in the abolition of the slave trade and slavery during the nineteenth century, the role of people of African descent cannot be underestimated. Equiano's narrative (1789), for instance, was an anti-slavery bestseller, and its account of the horrors involved furthered the campaign of those who sought to end the slave trade and slavery.” Yes, Equino's book was published in a Christian country with Christian sensibilitites. Naturally, it helped to advance the antislavery cause. ---------------------------------------------- The slaves themselves had begun to play an obvious and undeniable role in the debate about their own future. This proved to be the turning point in the story of British abolition.” I'm not knowledgeable enough about slavery in Britain's Caribbean colonies but what you describe didn't happen in the US. The major way blacks in the US advanced the anti-slavery cause was by writing and speaking to northern Christian audiences. -------------------------------------------- "1776, Adam Smith's study in economics The Wealth of Nations concluded that slavery was uneconomic due to the costs involved in keeping slaves under control" He was wrong and the fact slavery in the British colonies was only outlawed in 1833, generations after Smith wrote is evidence. I think Adam Smith was letting his hope drive him there. The invisible hand didn't get rid of slavery. If he'd been right, it would have.