Stories, Part II

Ever since The 1619 Project was published, Story 3 has become oddly popular on the Left. They apparently think (if that it the correct word) that slavery was something invented in 1619. On the contrary:

• Enslaving foreigners goes back at least to the Egyptian Empire.
• Kidnapping foreigners to enslave goes back at least to the Assyrian Empire.
• Western Europeans joined the party in the 15th century or earlier.

On July 4th 1776, a group of statesmen (including a few representatives of slavers) signed a paper that said that was wrong.