--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings <no_reply@> > > wrote: > >> Then > > > the Founders of US created a system just like the British one > > > whereby only Landowners could vote, but no figurehead as such. The > > > difference was that Britain had outlawed slave ownership, but the > > > newly independent Americans kept that right for themselves. > > Not exactly. Britain outlawed slavery in Britian in 1833.>>
Actually slaves in Britain had won court cases for freedom before America existed. British law was based on old laws about serfdom that was outlawed in Britain in the 1400's. You need to get a more detailed look at how history actually is. Slavery was illegal in Britain since the 1400's (wether that law was broken or not is a different matter), and it was even stricter in Scotland. Hence , before the slave -owners in America had their revolution, court cases in Britain had set slaves free based on this old law. Therefore slavery was illegal in Britain before the America even existed. OffWorld
