You can fairly blame the U.S. for choosing to keep slavery after independence, and for maintaining it in the Purchase territories after acquisition.
But the people who made all those decisions are long dead anyway, so I don't understand the relevance to today.
People do this right here on Free Republic. People(teachers) do it in the schools and universities. The 1619 Project does it. It is even in the name: The 1619 Project they do not call it the 1776 project.
"But the people who made all those decisions are long dead anyway, so I don't understand the relevance to today."
The answer is two part.
There is no relevance to today, except there is relevance because the progressives have made it relevant and the progressives use their positions in journalism and academia to keep shoving slavery down our throats even though as you said, it was France's fault. No, actually you mentioned Great Britain but it's all the same either way depending on which territory is in question.
Look, we have the universal fact of nature abhors a vacuum to contend with here. As long as we leave a vacuum that progressives can triumph on the topic of slavery, we will have to deal with this forever.
The only way to make it stop is to force it to stop and that's through one single word. Victory.
But as Reagan said you can have peace and you can have peace this very instant. You only have to do one thing.
Surrender.
Those are the choices we are being given by the progressives. Either we win this argument over slavery or we can choose to surrender. I think victory is the better option but every day I receive constant reminders that I am alone, I'm surrounded by people who do not desire victory in this. I can't grasp the concept.
A very sensible outlook on the situation. It is stupid for people to deny the role slavery had in the U.S. economy and how its evils are a stain on our history. But I don’t believe that we have a duty somehow in this present day to make amends for that history. Honesty does not require absolution by cash or kind.