Should the British Empire supported the CSA?

GrauGeist said:

Uh, no - the British brought African Slaves to North America and the Caribbean.
So did the Spaniards, French, Dutch and Danes.

Britain aboloshished slavery in 1834 - two hundred years after they first brought slaves to North America.

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GrauGeist said:

Uh, no - the British brought African Slaves to North America and the Caribbean.
So did the Spaniards, French, Dutch and Danes.

Britain aboloshished slavery in 1834 - two hundred years after they first brought slaves to North America.

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Admiral Beez said:

I not contesting any of that. I'm only wondering how the USA would look today without African slavery.

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Greg Boeser said:

Yes, but the first African slaves didn't arrive in British North America until 1619. The first colony was established in 1607. So for twelve glorious years, the British held the moral high ground.

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Greg Boeser said:

Like Canada?

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Shortround6 said:

When they weren't stealing land from the Native Americans

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Shortround6 said:

They never figured out how to grow cotton in Canada.

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Admiral Beez said:

I not contesting any of that. I'm only wondering how the USA would look today without African slavery.

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Thumpalumpacus said:

Perhaps better off. Fewer modern racial issues? More early investment capital to find more efficient crops or industry (Georgia, big on slave agriculture, sat on a lot of iron, other states in coal) right at the start of the Industrial Revolution, and immigration ramping up, meaning industrialization happening earlier?

Or maybe our native tribes would have been more enslaved instead, with all the modern racial problems which that implies.

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Thumpalumpacus said:

Perhaps better off. Fewer modern racial issues? More early investment capital to find more efficient crops or industry (Georgia, big on slave agriculture, sat on a lot of iron, other states in coal) right at the start of the Industrial Revolution, and immigration ramping up, meaning industrialization happening earlier?

Or maybe our native tribes would have been more enslaved instead, with all the modern racial problems which that implies.

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Greg Boeser said:

It's my understanding that Africans were brought in because the natives were not amenable to slavery. Kept running off into the wilderness. Indentured Europeans were a bad investment because after seven years, you were supposed to let them go, at which point they became your competitors.

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