Maybe because there's less conflation over there between ending the slave trade
and ending slavery. The warm fuzzies in the UK media over the end of the slave
trade have been a bit much; while abolishing the importation of Africans
(largely) ended the misery of the middle passage, it certainly did not end the
brutality of slavery itself in the colonies, and there has been little mention
of that here.
--
Dr. Eric Olund
Lecturer in Human Geography
Department of Geography
University of Sheffield
Winter Street
Sheffield, S10 2TN
UK
Phone: 0114 222 7982
Fax: 0114 279 7912
Quoting Mieka Brand <[log in to unmask]>:
> Forwarded message from H-Afro-Am:
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> From: tanter [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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> You know, it's interesting to note that the US signed an end to the
> "slave trade" on March 2, 1807 and not a word is being written or said about
> it. I know the impact of the British abolition was much more effective and
> deep-seeded, but it's as if what happened over here didn't happen.
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> Mieka Brand
> Visiting Assistant Professor
> The College of Wooster
> Department of Sociology and Anthropology
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