[BfloGuy]

If someone wrote a book about the history of slavery, US slavery would probably only be a short chapter.

True, but it was evil, nonetheless. Now, obviously, we cannot change what those who went before us did, but neither should we make light of it.

[mrsmith]

Nor should we make ‘heavy’ of it. The evil men do lives on well enough by itself without helping it with exaggeration and cant.