Catholics were the first freedom fighters.
The British Jews quickly rushed through the breach.
Various globalist liberal causes following after, antislavery followed in train, while Britain nevertheless maintained control on subject populations with indentures which were less objectionable to the 'sufraggette city' women at home.
Hindus were selectively allowed to emigrate. Asians at first in small numbers. Few negroes at first.
The nearby Museum of African American History is one of few national institutions that tackles head-on the horrors of slavery. Across the southern United States in particular, even in schools, there is still a reluctance to do that.
If you look at what little history there is of Africa, history or paleogenetic prehistory, it is a sketchy history of relentless tribal wars, slavery, cannibalism, and unrelenting savagery, with virtually no civilization worth calling it that, ever.
Writers, Wade, for example, who say Western imperialism stamped out what was just only then fitfully developing are too kind to the Africans, trust me.
Randall Collins hardly even mentions Africa, in The Sociology of Philosophies, 1200 pages. It was not because Collins was either a dumb or a racist guy. On the contrary.
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