The whole problem with this New York Slimes stories (and that is what they are just “stories”) is that there was slavery in North America BEFORE 1619!
Native Americans were taken as slaves as early as the 1580’s!
The first slaves in North America were actually brought by the Portuguese who were sailing them to South America, but their ship was pirated away and the cargo was sold to the Caribbean islands!
The New York Slimes attempted to generate a narrative, but their history, their timelines and just about everything in these stories is incorrect or simply lies! They are trying to make black slavery as the “real” start of America, but America was here well before blacks hit these shores! And slavery was here well before blacks hit these shores! They try to make it sound like slavery was an integral part of ALL of America, when in fact, two parts of America (which would later become two individual states) outlawed slavery before we even finished fighting the American Revolution!
“The whole problem with this New York Slimes stories (and that is what they are just “stories”) is that there was slavery in North America BEFORE 1619!”
Some Native American tribes practiced forms of slavery prior to Europeans appearing in the Americas.
In addition some indigenous peoples in North and South American practiced human sacrifice.