Yup, the USA was later in outlawing slavery than European countries. The reason can be attributed to different political systems. And unlike in Europe, it was far more contentious in the USA, and partly due to slavery, a Civil War was fought, something that did not occur in Eurpoe.
But your statement made it appear (and is apparently being taught in American public schools,) that slavery ONLY existed in the Americas. As with your statement where you ONLY mentioned slavery in the Americas, public schools do the same thing, without any context, such as mentioning that slavery has been going on around the world for nearly all of human history. That omission fosters the assumption that ONLY America participated in slavery, which is something that the “educators” are more than happy to allow.
Mark
America is the only place that I care about. Whether slavery existed in Brazil, or Canada or Saudi Arabia is an interesting fact. We have had no control over Brazil, Canada or Saudi Arabia. We were the masters of our destiny. That destiny included hereditary chattel slavery. We made the choice to permit slavery.
Most people that recite the long list of where slavery was practiced sound as if they are saying, well it was legal there so it was not so bad that it was legal here. Almost like they were trying to find an excuse of slavery.