Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "BBC is accused of 'rewriting British history': 'They've forgotten it's a national broadcaster'" video.

  1. The southern states, in the US, wanted to abolish it exactly as England did, but Congress refused to refund the holder's debts, which would have bankrupted the planters or holders if the slaves were simply "freed." The holders had taken huge loans from the cotton mills in places like New York to buy them. England paid their holders what they had invested, and went on about their business, where the slaves were freed.
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