I’ve had discussions with Wokesters about this. It doesn’t matter. They blame America for slavery in the first place, the Natives simply picked up the chattel practice from us.
The only thing I’ve seen that stops the Wokesters in their tracks is to remind them the fact that many of the Founding Fathers were abolitionist and that we tried to stop slavery against the slaving Empire who brought slavery here to these shores, ultimately, against our will too.
The facts prove this.
The wokesters mistakenly believe Britain invented abolitionism.
BZZT! Wrong answer. America invented transatlantic abolitionism.
They don’t recognize England was our colonizer. Slavery was their institution. Several colonies banned slavery pre independence, the King overruled them. Perhaps because the Royal African Company was founded by the Royals. By 1789 five states had banned slavery, still legal in Britain. The northwest territory, our first expansion, would give rise to five free states. By 1821, slavery still legal in Britain for another dozen years, 12 free 12 slave states. By the Civil war 17 to 15. The idea that abolition was an English concept is silly. Facts don’t matter. Could also point out that if the US is guilty of original sin due to European established slavery, so is every other nation in our hemisphere.