People forget that slavery was (and still is to some extent) a terrible blight on human history, not just the history of the American south.


Both north and south had African slavery. Canada had indigenous and African slavery. Mexico had indigenous and African slavery. The Carribean had African slavery. Africa enslaved over a million white Europeans during the same time period as well as other Africans. Portugal enslaved Japanese during the same time period. It was everywhere and had no racial or national bounds.

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