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One of the most pervasive, self-serving, American myths is that we lead the world in eradicating slavery. It's such an interesting revelation about how we think about ourselves despite the facts. We did not even lead the Americas in abolishing slavery & certainly not the world.
Where is this lie coming from?? In the Americas, only Cuba and Brazil took longer to abolish slavery than we did, and only one other country required a war to do so. That other country was Haiti, and the war was led by enslaved people who successfully overthrew their "masters."
Yet at least once a day on here someone justifies the hypocrisy of our founding by pointing out first that slavery existed all over the world in 1776 and then by saying that we were the first nation to abolish it. It confirms so much about the lies this nation tells itself.
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