I suspect my knowledge of slavery across the world far exceeds your own; and yes, slavery in the United States was uniquely harsh relative to the other forms. Almost anywhere else, slavery was for a limited amount of time and the children of slaves were born free. Here, Americans changed what had been the rule in Britain where children follow the father’s bloodline and instead follow the mother’s. Any child born to a female slave was also a slave.
Also, slavery did not end when you think it did after the Civil War. After that came the Black Codes which replaced slavery in as many aspects as it could.
Don’t imagine slavery ended then either during Reconstruction, which the once anti-Slavery Republicans helped do away with under the Compromise of 1877. The sugar industry in Florida and elsewhere still had/have slaves with indictments of U.S. Sugar executives coming in 1946. Even today, tomato growers and sugar harvesters are subject to slave-like conditions with armed guards to enforce their servitude. Their products end up in major grocery chains like Kroger and Publix.
You don’t want the history of slavery to be brought up for reasons I can only imagine. Many agree with you and are doing their best to erase a brutal past that frankly doesn’t make American History sound all that wonderful. Texas school books may now reflect the past as you would have it told, that’s why I and others find in necessary to bring out the truth from time to time; lest we forget.
