The EUROPEANS, Middle easterners and Africans brought slavery here.
Those old, white, rich forefathers of ours formed a nation and GOT RID of it within 100 years.
They are heroes, not villains as the left wants to portray them as.
Papa Walton in “Roots”: ‘They’re better off as slaves. At home(Africa) they eat each other.’
The first slavery in the US occurred in Puerto Rico - then ruled by the Spanish. They had enslaved the local indigenous population by 1500. The NYT notes the first delivery of African slaves to the Colonies in 1619, over 100 years later.
“Those old, white, rich forefathers of ours formed a nation and GOT RID of it within 100 years”
For 76 years those old, white, rich forefathers, increased the slave population from 694,000 in 1790 to 3,953,000 in 1860. They made millions of dollars off of the labor of those slaves. It took a bloody 4 year war and an amendment to the Constitution to end the practice of slavery in this country.