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For anyone curious about this, I highly recommend the following books on the subject:
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America , Gerald Horne
The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century , Gerald Horne
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat , J. Sakai (this one comes with free download links)
It's almost as if we need to be brainwashed in school to believe America is always The Greatest Country Ever™ because in reality we're one of the worst.
I don't mean worst monetarily, or by virtue of our graduates skill. I mean worst in how its people are treated, in how we treat the world at large, and how the only thing that Americas so-called leaders really aim for is to be a giant sweatshop.