Chattel slavery was unique to the United States? Who knew?
Certainly slavery in the U.S. was "unique" with regard to any number of local particularities, but as a broad proposition ... one of the most important distinctions is that the slave population in North America survived and grew. Far more slaves were sold from Africa north to the Arab world, yet there is no African disaspora in the middle east. Do American lefties really need someone to connect the dots for them?
Apparently, yes.
The true Leftist--and the writer certainly appears to be one--is not driven by reason, but by hatred of reality. That hatred runs through all their projects, policies & rhetoric--although at election time, they have become reasonably skilled at masking it in euphemistic language.
While slavery--whether those held in servitude were called "slaves, bondsmen, serfs," or whatever, is truly common to some extensive period in almost every nation's history: there certainly were unique aspects of the application of the system in each land. One of the things that stands out in America, was that the system was considerably modified by Christian values, with the result being that it was very common for the newly freedmen in the post war generation that followed emancipation, to continue to identify with the families of the former masters. (This was more true, here, than in post feudal Europe, at least on the continent.)
For a powerful witness to the point, see Booker T. Washington's classic address at the Atlanta Exposition, in 1895.
Of course, the hate-driven writer of the article above, would never even conceive of people allied in common purpose & friendship across class & racial lines in the America he despises.
William Flax