You're little star indicates practices that occurred worldwide during that period of time. Certainly wrong and definitely rectified as we grew.
We had just defeated the most powerful military machine the world had ever seen with a consortium of continental conscripts that had no experience in warfare, ragtag militias, and frontiersmen. Our founders knew that slavery had to be dealt with but balancing the birth of a fragile nation was foremost. We simply would not have survived a second internal war.
Sure, but there really isn't a reasonable basis for claiming we were unique among the nations in being "a country of individual liberty". Just to use the most obvious example, the traditions of liberty were just as strong in Britain.
Britain wasn't even close as far as liberties that the founders were aspiring to.
Care to expand on that one?