Tim Lynch
Maj USMC (ret)
Freerangeinternational.com
What is the “Big Taliban”? What is the “Little Taliban?” Where do the Taliban derive their legitimacy from in areas the Afghan people are sympathetic to the Taliban? Does the President’s new direction for the war in Afghanistan point the nation in a better direction relative to achieving a positive outcome there?
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Matt Phillip is the Founder of Jarhead Java and donates 50% of the sales profits to The Semper Fi Fund. We’ll get an update from him on how things are going as he expands the reach of his gourmet coffee.
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Aaron B. O’Connell
Col USMCR
Dr. Aaron O’Connell is an Associate Professor of history at the The University of Texas at Austin and the Editor of Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan. O’Connell is 22-year veteran of the Marine Corps Reserve who left active duty as a Colonel. Before joining UT, O’Connell also served as Director of Defense Policy and Strategy in President Obama’s and President Trump’s National Security Council. He served in Afghanistan from 2010-2011 as a Special Advisor to General David Petraeus and was also a Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon.
Aaron joins the program to give his thoughts on President Trump’s Afghanistan policy speech delivered Monday night at Forty Meyer in Arlington Virginia. DON’T MISS THIS.
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John Ubaldi
MGySgt USMC (ret)
Founder, The Ubaldi Reports
John Ubaldi, MGySgt USMC (ret) is the head man at Ubaldi Reports, he joined us to comment on President Trump’s speech on the future of Afghanistan.
Listen as someone who has fought in Afghanistan reacts to our new direction there.
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Reuters Staff
Following are some key dates in the trans-atlantic trade in slaves from Africa and its abolition.
1444 – First public sale of African slaves in Lagos, Portugal
1482 – Portuguese start building first permanent slave trading post at Elmina, Gold Coast, now Ghana
1510 – First slaves arrive in the Spanish colonies of South America, having travelled via Spain
1518 – First direct shipment of slaves from Africa to the Americas
1777 – State of Vermont, an independent Republic after the American Revolution, becomes first sovereign state to abolish slavery
1780s – Trans-Atlantic slave trade reaches peak
1787 – The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade founded in Britain by Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson
1792 – Denmark bans import of slaves to its West Indies colonies, although the law only took effect from 1803.
1807 – Britain passes Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, outlawing British Atlantic slave trade.
– United States passes legislation banning the slave trade, effective from start of 1808.
1811 – Spain abolishes slavery, including in its colonies, though Cuba rejects ban and continues to deal in slaves.
1813 – Sweden bans slave trading
1814 – Netherlands bans slave trading
1817 – France bans slave trading, but ban not effective until 1826
1819 – Portugal abolishes slave trade north of the equator
– Britain places a naval squadron off the West African coast to enforce the ban on slave trading
1823 – Britain’s Anti-Slavery Society formed. Members include William Wilberforce
1833 – Britain passes Abolition of Slavery Act, ordering gradual abolition of slavery in all British colonies. Plantation owners in the West Indies receive 20 million pounds in compensation
– Great Britain and Spain sign a treaty prohibiting the slave trade
1846 – Danish governor proclaims emancipation of slaves in Danish West Indies, abolishing slavery
1848 – France abolishes slavery
1851 – Brazil abolishes slave trading
1858 – Portugal abolishes slavery in its colonies, although all slaves are subject to a 20-year apprenticeship
1861 – Netherlands abolishes slavery in Dutch Caribbean colonies
1862 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln proclaims emancipation of slaves with effect from January 1, 1863; 13th Amendment of U.S. Constitution follows in 1865 banning slavery
1886 – Slavery is abolished in Cuba
1888 – Brazil abolishes slavery
1926 – League of Nations adopts Slavery Convention abolishing slavery
1948 – United Nations General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including article stating “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.”