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Jeffrey St. Clair @JSCCounterPunch
To give the Oprah interview some context it's worth remembering that the British monarchy held a monopoly on the English slave trade for 150 years, from the day Elizabeth I rented the pirate John Hawkins a 700 ton Royal navy ship the Jesus of Lubeck to transport enslaved Africans — PolitiTweet.org