U.S.A & slavery . World remember America as slavery country . But ..?

Question

..is it real to blame America ? America was under U.K occupation !

Answer 1

The US continued as a slave based economy for many years after their independence from England, so being occupied is hardly an excuse...

The US was not unique in using slavery as a basis for agricultural colonial production, and enslavement of many different kinds existed then, and exist now. Many people are not aware that there were huge numbers of white bondsmen in America (that is how you paid your boat fare). Or that a slave was more likely to be cared for than a white bondsman, because the most economical thing to do with a bondsman was to feed him *just enough* and give him just enough clothing, that he would drop dead as his clothing rotted off just about at the end of his contract. A black slave was an investment!

What makes the US unique is that in the US slavery and race become linked very tightly, and so it was difficult or impossible for a slave that earned his freedom, or who escaped, to mainstream into society as other immigrants and non-black freed bondsmen were able to do.

In other countries, slaves were generally surrounded by freedmen or indigenous people of their same race and culture In America the slave labor force was imported, and obviously from a different race, and so slavery in the US became a permanent, inherited and inescapable state.

Even after emancipation opportunity for black people was limited and wages were brutally low. In some respects many blacks were better off under slavery than under conditions of wage slavery and legal and social oppression. In much of America, even until very lately, long after the civil rights movement, black people remained second class citizens without access to a standard of living equal to that of white people with similar education or experience, and with limited access even to that similar experience.

Many other countries were built on slave labor, or even prison labor (such as Australia), but in those places the decendants of those slaves or prisoners are full members of their society.

The tragedy of race bias continued because you could *see* who was the decendant of slaves, not because there is any real negative quality with being the decendant of a slave. This same bias applied to first generation immigrants in various waves of immigration to the US, such as the Irish, Polish and groups of asians. It took the asians longest to mainstream, because they also look different, and you can tell their children are born of immigrants even if they speak english perfectly.

This bias based on visible difference is still also true in some places in north Africa, where officially there is no slavery, but actually people of a certain ethnicity are essentially bound to a family as serfs as a condition of survival. Bias and even civil war are based on different looking clothing dictated by religious practice in places like Bosnia, the Hutus are still at war with their former owner race, the Tutsis. (Yep, they look different.)

Anyplace where slaves were imported, those slaves and/or their decendants, took a long time to mainstream. Anyplace where the decendants of slaves or immigrants are identifiable, they are discriminated against.

American were, and are, just like other people: Unlikely to include people different from themselves fully in their society in preference to 'people like themselves'.

Answer 2

"U.S.A & slavery . World remember America as slavery country . But ..?
..is it real to blame America ? America was under U.K occupation !"

The above makes no sense. There is probably no place in the world, no nationality, ethnicity, religion nor culture that has not practiced slavery in its history.

The difference is that some still do. Those are where you need to focus your efforts.

Answer 3

Slavery in America began when it was a British colony, but continued long after independence. The British ended slavery in 1833 and the US continued until 1865.

Here's a site with interesting info about Britain and slavery:
www.victorianweb.org/history/antislavery.html

There is still slavery going on in Africa, particularly Sudan.

Answer 4

True slavery began in the US while it was still a British colony but UK outlawed slavery in 1807 and manumited all slaves withins its domain in 1833. However, the US, an independent country since 1776, only outlawed slavery in 1865.

Answer 5

Slavery has persisted in many forms throughout history.

None of that history ameliorates in the least the wrongness of slavery.

Slavery is a crime against humanity, period.

All rationales seeking to excuse or permit, to tolerate or to allow, to condone or overlook.. are simply that -- rationales.

By the way, Great Britain continued into the 20th century with policies and practices that in effect enslaved thousands upon thousands of Africans during Britain's neocolonial period in Africa.

Answer 6

No it was not. America took independance and still continued the slave trade.

Answer 7

You really need to get more educated. From what planet are you from ? All of your questions reflects lacking of all kinds of knowledge. I feel sorry for you.