My mom told me America (the US) was the first country to abolish slavery. Then I found out that isn't true. Was she brainwashed?

[InsecureLivesMatter]

We were sitting in the car talking about racism and slavery and slurs and Democrats and Republicans, and she brought up some interesting point about the US being the first country to abolish slavery. I was so excited to hear the facts, as she was telling me about Africa not having enough resources so the US shipped the slaves over and white slave owners bought slaves from a Black man, and the US became the first country to abolish slavery.

But, it wasn't America. I just found out it was Haiti. Is her history vision Euro-centric? By the way, she told me Kamala Harris is not even Black, she's Indian because of her name and her husband.

[kylee2437]

I don’t think brainwashed, but she was misinformed. That’s pretty normal in society when information gets passed down over time. Have you ever played the game “telephone”? That game gives good basis to what happens to information as it gets passed down over time

[NaultD]

bad education is just bad education.

USA was very late to the game as a global power to end slavery. The big triangle trade of the Atlantic ended with American independence. So no new African born slaves happened for a hundred years nearly before the Civil War started.

So all the European washed their hands of slavery long before our Civil War.

[Metallsturm]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_abolition_of_slavery_and_serfdom

So it wasn't even Haiti.

[strateguy632]

but haiti is not famous. u. s. was the first famous one to also make a fuss about it. only if you watch the historical fiction, you would know u. k. law was before u. s. still it is not taught "only america was first" just u. s. is the famous one. oh and u. k. government ruined their equality by... supporting the south pro slave in civil war 1860s.

[DextroShade]

The US wasn't the first but it was amongst the first. Also, it was white nations like the US and UK that forced African countries to give up slavery as they were the ones who sold their own people into slavery in the first place.

[Wallythewalrus]

8 out of 10 college freshmen, sorry, freshthem or freshthey, think slavery ONLY occurred in the U. S. are they brainwashed?

[InsecureLivesMatter]

you're not even answering my question

[Wallythewalrus]

Oh, yes I am. I don't know if your story is true and you can't actually back it up with facts. You're just another left wing lunatic that feels empowered to spread lies because you feel protected. My comment is actually fact based! And is a piss poor reflection on public schooling. My comment is the impitamy of brainwashed.

[InsecureLivesMatter]

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[Anonymous]

Her views are certainly not 'Euro centric'.

This is just the sort of retarded shit that Americans say all the time about basically everything.

[AngryCarl2]

Kamala Harris had a black father and an Asian mother, so she is both black and Asian. Or in common parlance Blasian.

[BigDog1989]

It wasn't the first

[Drewtate]

Actually was Britain.