The cracks are surfacing from a very, very deep root. The basis on which American society is built is dearly lacking. I cannot understand how America went through something like the Civil War without making any radical changes. Maybe the language of religion is appropriate, after all.
No, it wasn't at the time. It was catch up to the entire rest of the world and the mechanisms that led to slavery subsisting, IE the first ten articles of the US Constitution and the electoral college and the economical basis were not changed.
Meanwhile, France changed their entire constitution for much less. So did many other countries. It was basic incremental even for the time.
The rest of the world is irrelevant to whether or not it is radical within the context of America.
Your point makes zero sense given that American fought literally its most bloody war America to make abolishing slavery a reality.
Comparing us to other places is fallacious. Your example of France in particular makes no sense given that American and France were not in the same starting positions so saying that their ending positions are not the same and that that means it's not radical is illogical. France did not embed chattel slavery into its own foundations.
Simply put, America was much further behind and the progress it did make was a lot for where it started out from.
