“Let’s all agree to mythologize American history”
Why not? We’ve done a pretty good job of mythologizing our own history.
Re Slavery: Two types of slavery were practiced in the Colonies (later States).One type was Indenture, in which an individual was sold (or sold himself) to serve a master for a fixed period of time. to learn a trade or pay off a debt or any other cause of need, the terms of which roughly correspondto those of an eved Ivri.
The second type, and the type of slavery usually referred to, is chattel slavery in which the master actually owns the physical person of the slave, much as one may own a horse or a cow, the terms of which pretty much correspond to those of eved K’nanni.