Hmm, that flag looks suspiciously like the Brit union jack flag. So I hopped on to Google and noticed that England abolished slavery about 1833 and that work was enabled about a year later, apparently Google and the internet weren't around to use yet. No doubt others in the Euro zone of the day, including England probably still traded with slavery enabled nations, or slave labor by proxy. In a similar way today we kind of refer to this kind of practice as globalization?

Yes, so many great points in your piece, also, the USA has so much unreported/unread/unlearned history, heavily employing the sin of omission, regarding what could also be termed the USA's first war of slavery emancipation, aka the USA's revolutionary war. To many of the day this struggle could easily look like a war for freedom from slavery, but our history books don't write so much on these parts of that war. Besides so many northern revolutionary war heros were also slave owners. We pump up our kids brains in our schools with fun little narratives like that of Paul Revere trotting out the Brit alarms, blah blah, etc. And, a crap ton of other fables and narratives. Completely avoiding a more real reality of that day.