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”.
Agree that slavery is an immoral institution.
I do not give a damn about slavery in Africa, Brazil, or Outer Mongolia. Slavery in country took 4 years of bloody warfare and an amendment to the Constitution to end. Whether Aztecs had slaves is immaterial to discussion of how the slave traditions developed in this country. As I said the vast # of posts pointing out American Indians had slaves is appears to somehow mitigate slavery as practiced by Americans.
cut the BS, the majority of slave owners in this country happened to be white European Christians.