Worth remembering: slavery was outlawed in the United States after it was outlawed in Great Britain. In the long-view, the whole American Experiment may not ha

Worth remembering: slavery was outlawed in the United States after it was outlawed in Great Britain. In the long-view, the whole American Experiment may not have been a net positive for slaves and their descendants relative to a hypothetical alternate history where the Revolutionary War failed and the US was just more British Empire. Nearly impossible to say with certainty, of course, because a Britain that included the US may have had different incentives to push it away from ending slavery.