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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ritzyvintage, post: 3682193, member: 18191&quot;]<i>Columbus&#039;s expeditions introduced disease and enslavement to the Taino people of the Caribbean, practically wiping out the Native population by the first quarter of the 16th century. This is why the Spanish resorted to importing Africans as slaves.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>That maybe the case, but the Caribbean is not in America? Most nations are responsible for the demise of their own people in more ways than one. Even in Africa where slavery is still rife. Black Americans, don&#039;t exactly have it good today in some USA states, do they? And how many died whilst being forced to pick cotton? England didn&#039;t exactly get off Scott free either!&nbsp; Roman and Viking invasions, Norman invasion too. You can no more blame th<i>e</i> English for everything today, than you can blame the USA today for its own history.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-us-first-abolish-slavery-idUSKBN2481YA" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-us-first-abolish-slavery-idUSKBN2481YA" rel="nofollow">Fact check: U.S. was not the only (or first) country to abolish slavery | Reuters</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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