DhiaDuit wrote:

townhall.com Six inconvenient truths about the U.S. and slavery

There's some bull**** in that article. I don't feel like poking at it
point by point but a couple of things gets my attention:

" 1. SLAVERY WAS AN ANCIENT AND UNIVERSAL INSTITUTION, NOT A
DISTINCTIVELY AMERICAN INNOVATION. "

Thank you, Mikey Medved. No one in the history of ever, ever said
slavery was a distinctly American innovation. But Mikey the Man starts
off with a fine job of punching down a strawman.

"5. WHILE AMERICA DESERVES NO UNIQUE BLAME FOR THE EXISTENCE OF SLAVERY,
THE UNITED STATES MERITS SPECIAL CREDIT FOR ITS RAPID ABOLITION."

If the idiot Confederates hadn't tried to break away from the United
States, rapid abolition WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED. Abolition was a weapon
against the power of rebel slave owners. In a perverse sense, Jeff
Davis might have had more to do with ending slavery in the US than did
Abe Lincoln. Maybe that's what puts the "special" in special credit.

NOTE -- Within about 10 years of the war's end, bring former slaves up
to an equal standing with whites became pretty much a non-issue in both
the North and the South. Meh, war's over and they're not going to do
that again.

It's interesting that abolition was getting some traction before the
European colonization of the Americas:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeli...ry_and_serfdom