View single post by Proud Pa  Posted: Sun Apr 19th, 2009 06:15
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17th, 2009 Location: Dixie Posts: 6    back to top  barrydancer
wrote:   Quite the contrary.  While for most of human history
few people thought there was anything wrong with keeping humans
as slaves, by the 18th century abolitionist sentiment had been
growing rapidly throughout the western world for a number of
reasons, Enlightenment theory, an increase in religious fervor,
etc.  There is a long history of abolitionism in Great Britain,
which finally freed its Caribbean slaves in 1833.  France soon
followed.  Furthermore, I would argue the Northern states would
never had provided for the emancipation of their own slaves were
it not for people thinking there was a problem with holding
other humans in bondage.  By 1860 there were a great many people
the world over who thought there was something morally evil
about slavery.  You are correct, I should have said, "anywhere
in the United State