The roots of the Secessionist Movement

[roadmaster]

We were the first country to outlaw slavery. It's still going on in Lybia today.

[Standing Wolf]

We were the first country to outlaw slavery. It's still going on in Lybia today.

Although many countries, including the U.S., abolished the slave trade early in the Nineteenth Century, the first sovereign nation in the Western hemisphere to abolish the practice of slavery itself was Haiti, in 1804. France did so in 1848.

[jet57]

We were the first country to outlaw slavery. It's still going on in Lybia today.

Uh, Scotland outlawed slavery long long ago. The UK banned it in 1807.

So, as I'm fond of saying: "Read your history" if you want to talk about it.