Slavery was ‘normal’ for most of human history, no matter what color your skin was. Almost every country on earth had slaves. There were multiple versions of it too, like indentured servants. America was the first country to do away with it.
Today it still exists openly in muslim dominated nations.
“Slavery was ‘normal’ for most of human history, no matter what color your skin was.”
It kills me at how agast Europe is about the slavery in America’s past. Effectively slavery was “normal” in Europe until maybe 100 years ago. The upper class ran everything, owned everything, and no matter what you did or how hard you tried, without the right name or connections, all you or your descendants were going to get would be barely enough for survival - by design.
The first sentence of your statement is true. Likewise, the second, and third sentences. The final sentence, however, is not. What the US ended up doing was fighting a bloody war over the issue, a dubious 'achievement' we share with Haiti which likewise did the same. No, the first country to do away with it entirely was Britain, and even that was accomplished in stages, starting with the closure of the trans-Atlantic routes in the early 1800's, until 1848, when the last vestiges of chattel slavery were outlawed.
As to your addendum about Muslim dominated nations, that is mostly true, although many of those nations have legal prohibitions, the institution still exists, with authorities turning a blind eye to its existence...
the infowarrior
“America was the first country to do away with it.”
No we weren’t, Russia beat us to it.