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Originally posted by hannukah harry
<b>mr. mephisto</b>
it actually is as simple as black and white. while not morally acceptable, slavery was <b>legal</b> at the time. what they were doing at the time was not illegal, and you can not hold someone accountable for doing something that was not illegal at the time.
the holocaust was immoral and illegal based on international law (war crimes, anyone?), so there's the difference.
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International slavery was illegal both in the United States and it was also "outlawed" by the United Kingdom (who attempted to police the seas) to
quite some time before the Emancipation Declaration.
And even that didn't remove slavery entirely from US statute books.
Mr Mephisto