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We can if they had those standards back then

Which they did

No, it isn’t because Spain and France continued to practice slavery *in their colonies* into the 1870’s and 1880’s.

Meaning that they were still practicing slavery.

Just this loud fucking group of southerners behind the damn times

The institution that determined morality for an entire continent still exists today and has the exact same standards for morality now, we know this because we have access to their documents

Colonies aren't countries

Colonies are under the control and dominion of a country.

Except they arent

Not like the actual country

Hence why we won our revolution

Meaning that they should be subject to the same laws as the home country, but apparently not in the case of France and Spain.

British America had their own legislatures and army before 1775

If we were Irish...

Which is my point.

They allowed for slavery to continue up until recently in their colonies.

Allowed=/=couldnt prevent

Why? Because they only had exceptions to the rule rather than believing slavery was outright amoral.

They only believed enslaving fellow countrymen was illegal, but not enslaving others.

No because the colonies werent listening

James Oglethorpe founded Georgia with an explicit ban on slavery, saying "occasion the misery of thousands in Africa"

France abolished it in 1848 btw

Including colonies

Hell, one of the biggest justifications for slavery was as a “right of passage” for the “inferior” groups in order for them to become “proper westerners.”

Uh no

Lol

Georgia was a Penal colony.

Its retarded

According to the slaveowners, they were to be slaves for life because they were inferior and thus happier as slaves than free people

They literally sent people over there in a form of debt slavery in order to work for their freedom.

You know? “Indentured Servitude”

Penal. The root of the words penalize, penalty etc

Related to punish, as in punishment for a crime

And, according to people up north, Blacks were simply inferior all around.

Because, Unironically, people have different views than they do today.

Thus judging them to the same standard as we judge others today is fucking moronic.

Indentured servitude does not mean you just go capture some people at the local jungle and force them to be your indentured servants

South were inferior all around

Hence barbaric practices

Indentured servants were paying off debts they chose to accrue, including passage to the new world