Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "This Religion Actually Helped Abolish Slavery" video.

For Britain especially, being at the forefront of the industrial revolution, slavery had become economically untenable, it was actually cheaper to have wage slaves than body slaves. Slavery would have collapsed in America in the same way if not for the insurrectionists.
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@johnjameson6751 I get what he's saying, but recast it in my own way, "Less Pride, More Humility". One of the tenants of "Woke" is everyone is "great" within their standpoint, so if you are FAT, you can take pride in your fatness, if homeless, you can take pride in your homelessness. I'm old enough to have been a hippie, lived a few miles from Charles Manson in 1969, this Tom guy does not have a clue.
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@BoneistJ Jews were chattel slaves in 1066, there's even documents listing them as such, English law did not apply to Jews.
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The doctrine of original sin is totally unacceptable to Jews (as it is to Christian sects such as Baptists and Assemblies of G-d). Jews believe that man enters the world free of sin, with a soul that is pure and innocent and untainted. Augustine reached into pre-Judaic thinking and pulled "original sin" out of that hat.
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@garylancaster8612 John Brown was an insurrectionist, even went to court accused of it, and I'd put the Beecher-Stowe family in a similar category, both strict Calvinists who believed in "G_d's “Sovereignty”, so against the separation of Church and State, so in my book, they are all insurrectionists against the state.
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@orboakin8074 No, Britain ended slavery by paying off the slave owners in the Caribbean. The cost/benefit was diminishing, so they sold out to the State. It's quite possible that might have occurred in America if not for the radical religious factions calling for war. I see parallels on the left today.
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@JabezBunting-w2z Odd, I 've never read about the idea, and the Atlantic Slave Trade ended in the US with "The Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves in 1807", 55 years before the Civil War. The majority of the Atlantic Slave Trade went to the Caribbean and South America, Brazil had a larger population of African slaves than the US and through manumission and the "Golden Law" ended slavery without a major rebellion or war in 1888, as skilled labor was coming from Europe, and body slaves no longer economically tenable. I think the same would have happened in US if not for the religious fanatics and insurrectionists like John Brown and the Stowes. I also wonder what would have happened if the promises of Reconstruction and "Separate But Equal" were kept, that broken promise is at root of many of today's trouble, much more than slavery itself.
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"White" slaves in the USA? NO. John Brown and Harriet Beecher Stowe were not "Quakers", they were strict Calvinists and believed in the sovereignty of G_d, which in many ways was anti-American and anti-Enlightenment. Who is this guy?
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