Immigrants cost Americans lowsend jobs' 2835

Max Muir

Do yo even read the links you post, twit?

The link says there are 20 million bonded slaves in the world, and 5 million in PAKISTAN alone. The women mentioned in the article are HINDU women in pakistan enslaved by mohamedan feudal landowners.

India has cases of bonded laborers, including minors, but that is a result of british-imposed poverty in India.

Look at the foundations of britain and the role of slavery:

British carried more Africans across the Atlantic than any other nation.

"By the 1640's Britain was heavily involved in this "trade" through private trading companies. The largest was the London based Royal African Company which had a monopoly of Britain's slave trade from 1672 to 168 plus 18. By the early 1700's the main base ports for slave merchants were:

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Also see the culture pages on this site for further information.

In Scotland, Glasgow also drew on this trade to increase it's wealth after the Act of Union of England and Scotland in 1707. From about 1730 Liverpool began to dominate the slave trade not only in England but also in Europe and this continued until its abolition in 1807. The British role in this African Diaspora was central to shaping the Caribbean and North America, since the British carried more Africans across the Atlantic than any other nation.

The first leg of this triangle of trade was the loading of various goods onto ships in England. These goods consisted of muskets, gunpowder, copper.... These were usually transported by the ships from England to the west coast of Africa. The goods were traded for enslaved Africans who were loaded onto the ships. The ships then took their human cargo to the The American mainland or the Caribbean islands where they were sold. The money from the sale was then used to purchase tobacco, sugar or rum which was then transported by the same ships back to their home port in England where they were sold.

The transportation of enslaved Africans to the islands of St. Kitts and Nevis began soon after Europeans began to colonise islands. The first recorded presence of African slaves in Nevis can be found in the will of James Hewitt dated the 9th August 1649. He left half a plantation in Gingerland and another plantation in Indian Castle to his wife which also included three indentured servants and four "nigroes". One of the slaves was also noted to be "out in rebellion", another way of describing a slave who was a runaway.

The purchasing of enslaved Africans was finally outlawed in the British Empire by an Act of Parliament in 1807. The abolition of slavery as an insbreastution was not achieved until an Act of Parliament became law from the 1st August 1834. Emancipation was followed by four years of apprenticeship which was put in place to protect the plantation owners from losing their labour force."

Adi Anant