The ideal of freedom behind the American Revolution had its effect in freeing thousands of people from slavery in the newly formed United States, something that was happening nowhere else in the world at that time. To call slavery “America’s original sin” is to turn reality upside down.
— Thomas Sowell, Wealth, Poverty and Politics (2015), Ch. 15
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