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you're conflating slavery with the slave trade and nations with people.
both are reprehensible, but the barbarity of the slave trade that americans engaged in is on an entirely genocidal & morally bankrupt level than the slavery practiced by some native americans and its practice was relagated individual members of native americans; not entire nations.
Yet they still practiced slavery and also taking of children during conflics to assimilate into their own tribe... which is a war crime now. Point is people are dicks everywhere.
only some people are dicks; the question is whether or not we give them power over us to push their dickish ways unto us like we do today under capitalism.