[DiogenesLamp]

Considering the Louisiana Purchase, did the United States inherit slavery from France?

Your continuous efforts to absolve the United States from any complicity in slavery reminds me of the people who for decades maintained the Rosenbergs were innocent.

After the opening of the Soviet files in which it was revealed that "Yes, the Rosenbergs were spies", even the most hardcore advocates finally admitted the truth.

I don't think you are susceptible to any such solid proof regarding your desire to separate the US from slavery.

I can't speak for others, but to me it comes across as a little obsessive.

But good luck to you.

[ProgressingAmerica]

If you can tell me how the United States is responsible for slavery in the year 1802 or any year prior in French controlled territory I need to hear it.

"Your continuous efforts to absolve the United States from any complicity in slavery"

Your continuous efforts to absolve the United States from any complicity in abolitionism reminds me of the people from The New York Times 1619 Project.

So we can be even on that.

You have facts you cannot account for just as all the same leftists cannot account for these facts.

I will continue to exploit those facts. It's not my fault you side with the left and either are unfairly caught in the middle or you are complicit. Either way I do not care. If you want to stop getting caught in the middle, stop siding with the left. Or even better, put an end to your complicity with the left.

America invented abolitionism, not slavery. It will always be there. It will never go away.

[neverevergiveup]

The US clearly was complicit in slavery, but Europe has a bad habit of propping itself up as morally, culturally, and intellectually superior to the US - and slavery has been one of their talking points. Actually, when looking at the Louisiana Purchase, the elephant in the room is that France sold off Native American lands that they had no right to. Much of what was sold was not controlled in any meaningful way by the French - but that didn’t keep them from selling it (or us from buying it).

To me, the most important lesson when looking at the history of the world is that it is replete with human aggression against humans - and with the arrogance of perceived superiority based upon pedigree. The US, for all of its flaws, remains the most important and successful nation to recognize the rights of individuals and that these rights are ordained by God - not granted by a governing body. The left has been waging an incessant battle against those ordained rights.