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Hillwilliam -> RE: US meddled in 50 nations over 130 times in 121 years By: ROTP Tags: * HIDDEN HISTORY The unen (5/5/2011 10:12:34 AM)
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We`ve also done a lot of good.
Wanna list them?
Defeat of the Barbary Pirates in the early 19th century.
You mean the guys we signed a treaty with only to send the marines to abrogate it?
Embargo of the West African slave trade in the middle of the 19th century are the first 2 that come to mind.
That embargo did not seem to stem the flow of black africans as slaves to the u.s.
How many slave ship captains were arrested,tried,convicted and hanged by the u.s. during this embargo?
You got anything else?
Read your history. Importation of slaves into the US was illegal beginning in 1808. As for being arrested, tried, convicted and hung in the US, they didn't bother. They just seized their ships (or shot them out from underneath them)
During the embargo, some captains were desparate enough to put their cargo overboard in small boats so the navy would have to spend all their time rescuing the slaves therein and the boat could excape to smuggle another day.
"American policies on the slave trade were confused and often contradictory. The Federal Government had no authority to act on slavery. It did had the right to act on the slave trade. The U.S. Comgress passed the Slave Trade Act (1819). Congress in the Act gave President James Monroe the authority to use the U.S. Navy to end the slave trade. Congress also approved the creation of Liberia as a place where freed slaves could be returned to Africa. Congress next approved an amendment which equated slave trading with piracy, a stiff provision because piracy was punishable by death."
The Brits were the primary keepers of the embargo but the US Navy kept squadrons off the African coast for this purpose.
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