Glad we cleared the air about that one and can agree France was no victim.
Then.
No. Our “inheritance” was not from many peoples, sources and cultures, not when it comes to specific land grants. Ownership is 9/10ths of the law and we did not purchase the Louisiana Territory from “many peoples, sources and cultures.” We purchased the land from France.
That land was French land and that slavery was French slavery. Full stop. The fact will always be there. It does not go away.
I’m not French. I have no problems blaming France for what was in fact their problem/their guilt. I do not see any reasons why this should be covered up.
I have no problem with your equating France under Louis XVI, France under the Jacobins, France under de Gaulle or ( among the five "republiques" ) France under Macron. But I don't agree with the estimation.
"...their problem/their guilt" seems quite the methodological error in which you seem to delight. The Germans are only now coming to terms with two modern generations who have been fed "...their problem/their guilt."
But going that route leaves one with us conservatives being somehow "guilty" for the idiocies of Democrats, for which I as an American do not apologize nor do I believe the "Obama-Biden" version of America is something for which I accept "guilt." Nor do I accept the "guilt" as peddled by the NYT's 1619 bullshit.