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1828 was probably the least racist time in history up to that point in history. All of human history prior to that is endless tribal and imperial conflict. U.S
by chrisco255 3y ago
1828 was probably the least racist time in history up to that point in history. All of human history prior to that is endless tribal and imperial conflict. U.S. was the first country that ever even explicitly set out to legally equalize unrelated people from different religions and ethnic backgrounds and simultaneously do away with the concept of inherited nobility entirely.
- pjc50 3y ago> U.S. was the first country that ever even explicitly set out to legally equalize unrelated people from different religions and ethnic backgrounds No they didn't! They could have done - racial equality was discussed at the time, as was gender equality, but they compromised in favor of allowing the slave states into the US in the first constitution. Many of which had racism embedded in the state constitutions in ways that were never even attempted back in Europe, such as prohibitions on miscegenation.
- triceratops 3y agoThere were other multi-ethnic, multi-religious empires in the past that treated all citizens or subjects equally. Rome, the Mongols, and the Achaemenids left their constituent peoples to govern themselves as long as they paid taxes and remained peaceful. Rome even made everyone a citizen by the 3rd century or something (can't be bothered to look it up right now). As for inherited nobility...that's just how things have been done for most of human history. The Americas were able to start over without that baggage.