Some people discount America on a mistaken belief that it was founded on slavery. They ignore the fact that the founders created a constitutional provision (in Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1 of the Constitution) that ensured slavery would be uprooted one day; and it was, at a cost of about 700,000 men who died in the Civil War—57 years after the slave trade itself ended in 1808 in consequence of the Constitution's Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1.
Meanwhile, slavery was not unique to America, as the late Dr. Walter Williams of George Mason University observed. In fact, what was unique were the considerable resources spent to uproot it in the