The problem there is “presentism”. People have this tendency to see the present as somehow different or more real than past historical events. Slavery will be bundled with the Spanish inquisition in their mind as old things from before times. Before we had our modern thinking. They can mentally compartmentalize slavery. Maybe Jim Crowe would be a better example since there are still people alive today who remember it. Women in the US weren’t generally allowed to get a credit card or bank account in their own name until 1974.
The problem there is “presentism”. People have this tendency to see the present as somehow different or more real than past historical events. Slavery will be bundled with the Spanish inquisition in their mind as old things from before times. Before we had our modern thinking. They can mentally compartmentalize slavery. Maybe Jim Crowe would be a better example since there are still people alive today who remember it. Women in the US weren’t generally allowed to get a credit card or bank account in their own name until 1974.