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Thanks for sharing that. Didn’t know that. On a side note the 2000 NJ Devils were the best overall hockey team of the last 30 years. The defence was unstoppable and Scott Stevens was a god in that playoffs. 4 lines that could all score. Except for Oliwa haha. 👍👍-Ryan

I do agree that was a pretty good all-around hockey team, one that knocked off the defending Cup holders. But I am definitely flattered you'd consider them that highly. And yeah... Oliwa. One of the best Poles to ever play in the NHL... which isn't saying much when you can count the number of Polish guys who have made it to the league on one hand.

Nice little fact! Thanks!

@@CanadiansReact you're welcome.

@@CanadiansReact it is called the Lincoln Bedell Statue in case you two also wanted to know the name.

Not yet but will definitely will. Thanks for the request Dallas!

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I have been to both Kansas City Kansas and Kansas City Missouri. I'm from just across that little river between the Show Me State and the Land of Lincoln.

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Don't worry, plenty of Americans will tell you the US was the first to abolish slavery.

@@Londronable Britain didn't just abolish Slavery in 1808 they declared it a crime against humanity and engaged in a full scale war against it, using their military and diplomatic power to coerce and outright force Nations, Kingdoms and Empires to end the practice. Britain invaded America just 4 years later and burned Washington to the ground and decimated the US military, since 1776 Natives, Loyalists and Africans fled North into British Canada to seek Freedom and escape persecution(Ironic) and slavery. Remember "All men are created Equal" was a British Ideal, unfortunately a civil war had to be fought to make this a reality within the Union. The US was not the first to abolish Slavery, they were actually half a century behind the rest of the West.

@@Username-wp5qm The point of my comment was that American exceptionalism is a bloody disease, not that it is true.

@@Londronable Probably for the best, could you imagine if they never took Credit for Space exploration? I don't think it's a good thing if people remember that Nazi Germany were the first in Space or that Soviet Russia were the first to put a Satellite and a man in Space, NASA essentially painted over the swastikas with the Spangled banner, the entire organization was run by Captured German scientists. I'm not sure it's such a bad thing that America takes credit for everything and subtly brainwashes it's citizens, could you imagine if the people woke up one day and realised every single President in US history(except one) is part of the Royal Family by blood or that almost every single political Family dynasty are direct descendants of the British aristocracy, could you imagine what would happen if people realised the US is still run by the same people it was before independence and literally all they did was create another layer between the King and the people through Government and changed who's face was on the money. It's sad to think about to be honest

OK, some nuances: Northern states in the U.S. began ending slavery outright, or phasing it out, right after the Revolution in the 1780s. Also, the U,S. Constitution banned the slave trade after 1808, and Congress followed up with a law to that effect taking place on Jan. 1 of that year. In the UK, court rulings began to cut into slavery's legality in the late 1700s, but full abolition only occurred in the British colonies with the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. The UK had banned the slave trade in 1807, a year prior to the U.S. action doing the same thing. The RN West Africa Squadron did patrol the area and was the major force against slave trading (1600 slave ships captured); the United States, having also banned slave importation, began sending a small force of revenue cutters to the area in 1819 to prevent slave trading, and increased its efforts later on, in the 1840s (about 100 slave ships were captured by the USN). The only time when British and U.S. Navy ships would have engaged would have been during the War of 1812, and that would have been by chance, not because they were on opposite sides on the slave trade. I can find no mention of U.S. Navy ships being involved in the slave trade as convoy escorts, although certainly there would have been smugglers of all nationalities (especially Spanish and Brazilian, but also American). There is no indication of official U.S. government support for slave trading after 1808.

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Uh, he never called it "The Battle of Manassas"... He simply referred to the area of Manassas for the "First Battle of Bull Run", which is what the video actually called it. It doesn't mean OverSimplified ISN'T a Southerner but perhaps you could have paid actual attention to the words of the video instead...

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Because it’s widely accepted as a poor defence. Even if the small-scale war-based slavery of African kingdoms were comparable to the continental conquest done by European powers, just because they didn’t start it doesn’t free them from the responsibility of taking part.

Well right. That's a facile response. It is our fault, and our responsibility. But it does somewhat annoy me when Europeans seem to isolate their countries from their own responsibility for the slave trade. Portuguese, Dutch, French and British ships were picking up slaves from the African coast for hundreds of years. Who do we think brought them here prior to 1776? And that's not to mention the many millions more who went to European colonies in the Caribbean and Latin America (particularly Brazil). There could have been no triangle trade without Europe serving as the third angle -- and many ports in the UK, such as Bristol, made their merchants very wealthy off that trade, just the same as in Charleston, Kingston or Boston. This is very much about the U.S. -- but not ONLY about the U.S.

@@johnalden5821Europeans are very honest about their history and the role their states played in establishing the trade. The reason it’s talked about more in association with America is because of the crucial role it played in your nation’s history and present problems.

@@WTFiamabanana This illustrates my point a bit. Bear with me. You could not have had the amount of wealth that fueled the European industrial revolution without the huge profits made from the slave trade. So, it's pretty clear that Europe's dominance of the world in the 18th and 19th centuries is linked to, if not caused by, its leveraging of slavery in its colonies. So, slavery affected Europe just as much as it affected the Americas -- only at arm's length. And then Europeans simply walked away and left those problems to us. Moreover, it isn't true in my experience that Europeans "are very honest about their history and the role their states played in establishing the trade." Rather, they vastly under-estimate the role that slavery played in building their own wealth, as well as their culpability for the ongoing aftermath.