Originally Posted by
davidmtupper
Because the true history of slavery in the US would include uncomfortable facts like the first slave owner being a black man, not all slaves being black, not all slave owners being white, the majority of the foul treatment of blacks coming from democrats (KKK and Jim Crow laws were all from that group). More fun facts include that fact that few white salve traders left the beaches in Africa, they bought the slaves from other Africans, the fact that of the 8.5 million slaves sold out of Africa, less than 500,000 came to the US, most went to the Caribbean and South America. Oh, and let's not forget that right now there are more slaves in the world, mostly on the African continent, than were ever in the US. If you are trying to fight slavery you might want to start there, rather than one of the places that ended it over 150 years ago.
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