Yet both ideas have gained currency in recent years, making it likely that the nation’s slaveholding past will figure prominently in commemorations of the 250th anniversary of American independence.
Scholarly studies offering a more accurate and balanced history of slavery in the United States are not impossible to find, but they are far outnumbered by ideologically driven treatments that downplay the institution’s ubiquity across the world and throughout history.
Scholarly studies offering a more accurate and balanced history of slavery in the United States are not impossible to find, but they are far outnumbered by ideologically driven treatments that downplay the institution’s ubiquity across the world and throughout history.
- Often the aim is less to illuminate a complex subject than to emphasize the sins of the West.
- As a result, what should be understood as a global evil is reduced to a single narrative:
- Europeans and their descendants enslaving Africans—in the Western Hemisphere generally, and in the southern United States especially.
- End of story...
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