Six inconvenient truths about the U.S. and slavery

By Michael Medved
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/Mich ... nd_slavery
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Those who want to discredit the United States and to deny our role as history’s most powerful and pre-eminent force for freedom, goodness and human dignity invariably focus on America’s bloody past as a slave-holding nation. Along with the displacement and mistreatment of Native Americans, the enslavement of literally millions of Africans counts as one of our two founding crimes—and an obvious rebuttal to any claims that this Republic truly represents “the land of the free and the home of the brave.â€