David Horowitz - ignorant of history:

In an Op-Ed piece in the Los Angeles Times - mostly bashing progressives - "scholar" Horowitz writes:

The United States and Britain, which led the world in ending slavery ...

Now Britain was a leader, but consider this timeline:

1821 The region that now includes Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela adopted a gradual emancipation plan.
1823 Chile agreed to emancipate its slaves.
1829 Mexico abolished slavery.
1833 Britain emancipated 780,000 slaves.
1848 Denmark and France freed slaves in their colonial empires.
1863 Dutch New World colonies abolished slavery.
1865 United States abolished slavery.
1886 Slaves emancipated in Cuba.
1888 Brazil abolished slavery.

posted by Quiddity at 1/06/2004 06:43:00 AM