Everything was just fine so long as we allowed slavery, denied women the vote and the right to own property, enforced segregation laws......
These things were accepted nearly worldwide at the time. In spite of them, people were desperately wanting to migrate to America. Even many of the slaves who had Christian masters had had a better life here than in the pagan jungle tribe where they often lived in fear and danger.
forced children into working 16-hour days in sweatshop factories, pursued polices to perpetuate poverty and starvation, etc.
Oh, come now. What percentage of America's children were
forced to do this.......certainly a tiny percentage of all the children and there has been after America was established, relatively miniscule incidence of starvation and far less poverty than in most of the world. Why do you think people were waiting in line to emigrate here?
The immeasurable present is forever consuming the eternal future and extending the infinite past. buz