Yes, there is the slave trade, and thanks for posting. For some reason I thought importing slaves stopped decades before the Civil War.
There is also native Americans. Recently I read "Northwest Passage" by the great historian Kenneth Roberts. He also wrote "Arundel" about the US invasion of Quebec. But I never realized, though I supposedly have a native American New England ancestor somewhere, how many native American nations and tribes there were, nor what happened to them. King Phillip's War. After making peace with manufactured goods and plundering fur and learning a little agriculture, white men slaughtered those who wouldn't comply and called themselves tolerant. Native American (is it still ok to call them Indians?) tribes were pawns in the geopolitical wars of France, England, and the US to lay claim to the continent. Other European crowns followed, though I have no idea if they were too late to participate in conquering native inhabitants. Swedes, Scots, of course Dutch, Germans of several Protestant varieties - all had their locales, some names and descendants persist today.
Then there is my pet peeve, the Civil War - the underlying economic systems that grew as Lincoln surrendered the continent to his masters - the railroads and northern manufacturers. Lincoln is known as a simple country lawyer who spoke plainly, but he was also a railroad lawyer who earned exhorbitant fees, and did a few land deals of his own. Freedom to plunder the West and enslave the labor in wage penury made eastern investors wealthy indeed. Robber barons and the Guilded Age had their roots in Lincoln's economic policies. All this is almost never mentioned in history. Lincoln was the greatest! It's like historians remain unaware of what was going down.
It's happening again today. Cutthroat capitalism has been enabled by Trump, but the focus in on his corruption for which he makes headlines. Do you see a pattern in all of this? Systems of exploitation grind history onward, and then are covered up or ignored because they are the "new normal". They sanitized the Iraq War. They'll try again.
End of rant.
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