Michael Medved’s ‘Six inconvenient truths about the U.S and Slavery’ seems to be causing a lot of debate around the blogsphere.
You should have a read of this article - it is quite bizarre and almost sickening that someone could be capable of generating such revisionist bile. The first sentence is quite amusing…
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.
It goes on from there, dot-pointing the ‘myths’ that surround popular perception of America’s role in the slave trade. There has been much made of this article, and some interesting opinions on it can be read here, and here, and here.