Just for you, Texas, even though you probably already know it.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_among_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States 

Originally Posted by: dfosterf 

Has anyone in human history besides the Americans ever fought a war where one of the stated objectives was to end slavery?

Originally Posted by: dfosterf 

Excellent Point - and lest the disparagers come back with the idea that nobody else ever had slavery to end, a big no way to that. I understand it still goes on some places in Africa, maybe elsewhere too. The prissy Eurowimps of that era benefited from slavery and sided with the South in the Civil War.

Originally Posted by: texaspackerbacker 

Just for you, Texas, even though you probably already know it.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_among_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States 

Originally Posted by: dfosterf 

Though to be fair to the Occupants of North America Prior to Europe's Takeover, the slavery they practiced was the traditional one seen in most of human history -- the slavery of enemies taken in battle.

It was the Western hemisphere (everywhere but the USA, mostly on the colonial equivalent of the modern corporation, the sugar plantation) that brought the innovation of multi-generation slavery into being.

Originally Posted by: Wade