Hi Mike, thanks for the reply. I submit that well past 1865, actual slavery still existed in locations in New Jersey, California, in one case in Oregon as late as 1878 and for decades later under the exception covered by the 13th Amendment allowing for prisoners to be slaves. Mass Incarceration didn't begin in the 1970s but immediately after the Civil War.
To answer your question about other countries. Slavery shouldn't be acceptable anywhere but America's particular brand of slavery was worse in many ways than other nations. They established laws (Partus Sequitur Ventrem) that made any child of a female slave a slave (differing from most other countries with slavery) and simultaneously absolved the fathers (in particular their owners) of any responsibility for rape and for the children they fathered. America fostered slave breeding to produce slaves at a higher rate, again using forcible rape along with programmed mating. On a Bell Curve, America gets credit for eventually doing better but not for being better than anyone else.
