On Mar 5, 12:54*pm, Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article ,
*Wes Groleau wrote:

On 02-26-2013 12:23, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
bells in your tiny belfry? *How about your slave trade, where you limeys
brought slaves to your southern plantations, then left us to deal with
the problems when we kicked your syphilis infected carcasses out in that

On the other hand, they outlawed slavery how many years before we did?

* Largely because they did not use slaves to the extent they did in the
South US. It wasn't much of an economic deal after they could no longer
sell slaves.


We used slaves in the West Indies. Sugar cane. Jamaica.

It was the war of Northern Aggression. They did away with slavery to
ruin the economy of the South.
Nothing altruistic.
Lincoln wanted to repatriate them to Africa.