Never claimed we invented slavery nor were we the worst. But the discussion is slavery in the United States. Immediately lots of posts stating just about everyone in every country practiced slavery. Fine, that the American Indians, or the Brazilians had slaves is not the discussion about slavery in the United States. IMO these are feeble attempts to somehow justify the institution of slavery as it was practiced in the United States.
No, slavery is an immoral institution. I was pointing out that the global demise of slavery began with the Declaration of Independence and that any discussion of slavery in America needs to include the facts that it was a global institution prior to the founding of the United States, and that this country was instrumental in ending it. It was the western European protestant value system that first stated that all people were equal under god. And that freedom and dignity is the natural state of humanity. So let’s cut the BS about limiting the discussion to ignore the totality of slavery in the history of mankind just to say “America Bad”.