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Roger Kimber, MD's avatar

As for the colonist and Americans purses, the native Americans, native Americans/Indians were scaling each other long before the white man arrived.

As for the sin of slavery, slavery was practiced by victorious African tribes, long before the Europeans colonized sub, Sahara and Africa. They enslaved the tribes that they conquered and sold the slaves to muslim Arabs. Slavery is still practiced in that part of the world. Not among Christians however.

Institutional slavery was eradicated legislatively in England and the British empire, as a result of Christian politicians. Ever hear of William Wilberforce? In the US it took a Civil War to free the slaves, costing the lives of 600,000 Americans. The impetus for that came from Christians. It is very true, and I will grant you that there were other reasons for the Civil War, but to deny that freeing the slaves on the basis of Christian conviction is not a major cause. If not the major cause this, please either ignorance or bias, or both on your part.

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