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by civilized 1691 days ago
If the choice you're complaining about is bringing in slaves, that choice was made by the homogeneous English immigrants. So apparently homogeneity doesn't always lead to good choices. Consistently practicing the Christian values they preached might have, though. So really this is just another point for common culture > ethnic homogeneity.
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Nope.

The Christians were against the slave trade and fight against it.

You may be talking about the "Jesus Company" where its founder was a converso (converted) [1].

You may consider that the `the homogeneous English immigrants` were the only ones to BAN and forbid the slave trade.

[1] - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/3817...

Wow. Are you under the impression that Christian English settlers didn't oversee slavery in America? Are you not familiar with how they used the Bible to justify slavery? These are real basics of American history.
It is a cheap shot because the Only people to stand up against slavery and fight against slavery of Another race was these `Christian English` people.

I am under impression they were the only ONES to object to it.

Until they came everybody was OK with slavery.

And slavery is still practiced in some parts of Africa[1].

Slavery was common including black owned slaves[2]

Then these pesky Christian English started talking about freedom, equality, individual rights, etc.

Whole world silent and they talking about the horrors of slavery.

No one else cared about it, no one else fight for it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century#/m...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Black_slave_owners_in...