[PrismCrystal]

The US is frequently called late to ending African chattel slavery because it already happened in France and England decades before, and even English conservatives were calling for an end (of various degrees of gradualness) to slavery long before American emancipation.

[AcerbicZero]

Which is odd, because it still hasn't actually ended in africa....

[wredcoll]

Why is that odd? Slavery is explicitly legal for felons in america right now. We don't typically compare our principles against the worst of history, we try to be better than that.