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Re: Reparations from the Romans and Arabs

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 21 Sep 22 4:27 PM | 22 view(s)
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Under imperial British law, you'd have had to pay them the market rate.

The sad thing is, at the time, Britain had surplus labour and an inadequate supply of land, while the US had plenty of empty land but insufficient numbers of labourers.

It isn't hard to figure how the problem in both countries might have been solved.

I think American plantation owners got greedy. Your founders included.

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Re: Reparations from the Romans and Arabs
By: clo2 in ALEA
Wed, 21 Sep 22 4:21 PM 		Msg. 47175 of 54818

1807 banning of slaves.


Oh sure... but we were brand new & needed to build with cheap labor.

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