Quote (Cannabist @ 17 Jun 2020 15:43)
The US is not North America, it's part of it but not it's entirety. It's an important differentiation if you're not trying to smear the US.
New world would have been more correct regarding the numbers. Perharps
By the time of the American Revolution (1775–1783), the status of enslaved people had been institutionalized as a racial caste associated with African ancestry. The role of slavery under the U.S. Constitution (1789) was the most contentious issue during its drafting. Although the creators of the Constitution never used the word "slavery", the final document, through the three-fifths clause, gave slave-owners disproportionate political power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_StatesThis post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Jun 17 2020 08:35am