Jack of Harts

I know it is fashionable these days for people to deride America, and some took the Fourth of July as an opportunity to do so. I will respond with this. Are we perfect? No. But the world is better today because of us. American States were the first political bodies in the world to end slavery. The United States was the first to ban the slave trade from importing slaves. We conducted anti-slavery patrols of the oceans with our greatest enemy, the Empire of Britain, for half a century. And we only pulled those patrols back to fight a war to free all the slaves in America. Then we renegotiated our treaties with sovereign nations to get them to free their slaves. We ended slavery in our corner of the world. That is one reason I celebrate America.