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That's because American students are taught that America invented slavery

A big part of American history education is to teach the emotional response a student should have. They're taught an emotional response to slavery, but not an emotional response to the sacrifices that Americans made to end it, nor to the completely ruined lives during Reconstruction. No emotional response either to whites being enslaved or being indentured servants, nor are they taught anything about who was funding slavery and transporting the slaves. They're also taught the proper emotion to experience when hearing that blacks were capturing other tribes of blacks is that it's a shame...a shame that white people made them do it.