[lbo-talk] Pro-War Bumper-Sticker

[Carl Remick]

On 11/5/07, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> The Brits got rid of slavery by a combination of
> common law -- it was always illegal in England -- and
> an Act of Parliament (1833) abolishing the slave
> trade.

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that the Brits merely outsourced
slavery?  After all, England supported the Confederacy during the US
Civil War.

Carl