It's ambiguous. The concept of slavery being bad was quite novel and mostly comes from English philosophy/legal theory which America has a direct lineage from.
It's ambiguous. The concept of slavery being bad was quite novel and mostly comes from English philosophy/legal theory which America has a direct lineage from.
The German immigrants rejected slavery a lot more vigorously than the English who had been there for a bit longer.
Interesting if true. Regardless, I'd just expand the general net to a European philosophical lineage.