Still Leading the Way on Slavery

Pam Mazanec, a member of Colorado's state Board of Education, argued that the United States ended slavery voluntarily in a Facebook post about the AP U.S. History curriculum.
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Pam Mazanec, a member of the Colorado state Board of Education currently leading the charge against those AP US History standards, apparently thinks that the US is one of the few countries to have abolished slavery.

Yes, we practiced slavery. But we also ended it voluntarily, at great sacrifice, while the practice continues in many countries still today! … This is part of the argument that America is exceptional.

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