"U.S. slavery"

Of the fifty states, eleven are named after an individual person. Of those eleven, seven are named in honor of European monarchs: the two Carolinas, the two Virginias, Maryland, Louisiana and Georgia. -wikipedia

“The Ancestral Footstep”: a bloody footprint left on the threshold of a English manor house - Nathaniel Hawthorne,

who also wrote after visiting the Rebel lines and seeing masses of troops with shouldered muskets, pondered, when will this obscene European style war end: "Not in this generation, I fear, nor in the next, nor till the Millennium; and even that blessed epoch, as the prophecies seem to intimate, will advance to the sound of the trumpet."