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81 " One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another "
― Thomas Sowell , Conquests and Cultures: An International History
82 " After the American civil war, the U. S. Navy also joined the anti-slave patrols in the Atlantic. "
83 " The world dominance of Great Britain enabled it to impose its anti-slavery edicts on many other sovereign nations. "
84 " African languages one third of all the languages of the world, "
85 " How, in the first place, did a peripheral island rise from primitive squalor to world domination? "
86 " Banning the institution of slavery itself long remained only a distant hope in much of Africa and the Middle East, even after it was a reality in the Western Hemisphere. "
87 " 1914, the coal mines in Wales employed more than a quarter of a million people and supplied approximately one third of the world's coal exports. "
88 " Romans withdrew from Britain four centuries later, the Britons began to retrogress, "
89 " The most spectacular-and embittering-of the British suppressions of the Irish was Oliver Cromwell's punitive expedition of 1649, "
90 " Wales' most famous writer, Dylan Thomas, spoke no Welsh. "
91 " the Britons that Julius Caesar saw were to him primitive exotics with long hair, dyed bodies, and living in a society of shared wives. "
92 " Cromwell's punitive expedition marked a watershed in Irish history. An estimated 40 percent of the Irish population died either in the war or in the famine which accompanied the devastation. "
93 " the British became the world's largest slaveholders in their Western Hemisphere colonies in the Caribbean. "
94 " The dire poverty of the early nineteenth century Irish may be indicated by their average life expectancy of 19 years-compared to 36 years for contemporary American slaves-and the fact that slaves in the United States typically lived in houses a little larger than the unventilated huts of the Irish and slept on mattresses, while the Irish slept in piles of "
95 " by 1891, nearly two-fifths of all living people born in Ireland were living outside Ireland. "
96 " Mauritania officially abolished slavery in 1980, though its own government admitted that the practice continued nevertheless. "
97 " even in their poverty they carried themselves with a fierce and stubborn pride that warned others to treat them with respect. "
98 " Given this background, it can hardly be surprising that hard drinking and the ruthless fighting called "rough and tumble," (which included biting off ears or noses and gouging out eyes) became hallmarks of the Southern backcountry way of life. Nor did it take much to get fighting started among these people, for "even in their poverty they carried themselves with a fierce and stubborn pride that warned others to treat them with respect."372 Vigilante movements were another facet of their violent pattern, and the name "lynch law" has been traced to one of their number named William Lynch, whose followers often flogged and sometimes killed their victims.373 These patterns continued long after Lynch's death in 1820, with most victims being white until the Reconstruction era in the South after the Civil War, when blacks became the main targets. "
99 " The only competition for the Welsh vote, after the decline of the Liberal Party led by the Welsh Prime Minister of Britain, David Lloyd George, was the Communist Party. "
100 " It was these elite families which produced such notable Americans of Scotch-Irish ancestry as Patrick Henry. Andrew Jackson, John Calhoun, James Polk, Zachary Taylor, Sam Houston. and others. "