Prometheus 6

Y'all still stressing this fool? Yes, Michael Medved is a pig. But he's not an original pig.

1. Slavery was an ancient and universal institution, not a distinctively American innovation.

American slavery was a distinctly American innovation. You see, the United States of America is the only nation in the history of the world in which slavery was a stain that could not be eliminated. In every other nation in the history of the world, a freed slave was a full citizen. In the United States, not only was a freed slave not a citizen, an African American who was never a slave at all was not a full citizen. In most slave states, there were limits to a white American's ability to free his own slaves. In several, freed slaves had to leave the state by sundown or be subject to reenslavement.