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    Look Away!!! Politically Incorrect Information About Slavery

    If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.”
    -Karl Marx


    "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
    -George Orwell, 1984


    "The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history"
    -Milan Hubl, Czek communist



    Is Slavery Unique to America? The History of Slavery

    The idea of slavery was so deeply ingrained that no one questioned its propriety. All nations enjoyed it.”
    -A.O Sherrard, Freedom from Fear


    In 1860, according to the census measure of wealth, the average southerner white male was nearly twice as wealthy as the average northern white male”
    -James McPherson Battle cry of Freedom


    Economical imperative brought on slavery in America, not some preconceived racial bias, slavery was a good investment, far out producing northern free labor by 35%. In Natchez, Mississippi, a population of 6,600 in 1861, there were over 500 millionaires. Besides NYC [ population 813,000] Natchez had more millionaires than any other city in the world. Slavery is not an American idea or a white idea. Slavery has been going on in thousands of nations since almost the beginning of time. Slavery was in America before any white men arrived. All races and groups of people have forced slavery on others of their own race and of other groups of people. Ancient cultures like Athens/Sparta had a 3-1 ration of slave to free man. When a culture denominated another culture, historically the result was slavery. The Romans owned slaves throughout the known world. The Romans had so many slaves that multiple large scale slave uprisings occurred. Arab Muslims enslaved a estimated 10 million Africans.

    Aztec's in South America always had and still have slaves in large numbers in South America. Native Americans enslaved other Native Americans. Multiple groups of Native American’s were cannibals and ate their victims. They also branded, burned them at the stake, buried them alive, killed them, or forced them into prostitution. Native Americans enslaved not only their own people, but whites and blacks as well. Most of the Native American tribes fought for the Confederacy and were owners of black slaves at the time of Civil War. One Choctaw Indian owned 227 blacks as slaves. Thousands of Jewish Americans owned slaves in the confederacy. Some native tribes like the Haida had slaves up until the 1950's in America. The Chinese and Asians also had slaves; In China, the Buddhist owned slaves.

    Africans had enslaved their own people in larger numbers and for longer periods before any white men came to Africa. Africa’s number one export was slaves; this was the case even before any white men came to purchase slaves. In Africa, blacks enslaved whites and millions of their own people. Some countries in Africa had as high as 75-90% of the population enslaved by fellow blacks. Throughout history all races have enslaved other races and people of their own race. Only 6% of slaves that were imported to the western world from Africa in 1640-1820 came to America; most went to places like Brazil, Cuba, the Caribbean’s, etc. Slavery in America only lasted 222 years, versus slavery in Europe and Africa which lasted thousands of years. Slaves in America were not reduced to slavery here, but were already enslaved in Africa before being sold to traders. There is an estimated 30 million slaves in the world today [2015], more than at any other time in history.

    White's Forced Into Slavery

    When some people hear the word slavery, they automatically picture a black slave and white master. It seems often that only whites can be guilty of slavery. However, just as any other people group, whites have been enslaved. Muslim Arabs have been enslaving whites, Christians, and Jews since around 600 A.D. Muslims sold whites into slavery in Africa; Over 1.5 million whites were enslaved during the 1700's in Africa. Whites [and Americans] were enslaved by the millions by North Africans and Muslims, forcing the USA to build a navy and go to war to stop the enslavement. In 1816, England went to war in Africa to free 3,000 English people.

    Whites have been enslaved “From Virginia to Barbados.” The English enslaved Irish/Vikings and Scots by the millions. In the English colonies of early America, prior to 1640, most sugar growing was done by forced white labor. In 1527, Native Americans enslaved white Spanish settlers in Florida. During the 1500's in Virginia, Algonquins Indians enslaved whites. The enslavement of whites was legal in Massachusetts in 1658. In England, a 1765 report gave a 90% mortality rate for slave children in “workhouses” in England.

    The word slave derives from slav, a Caucasian ethnic group often taken and enslaved by Muslims from the Ottoman Empire. Blacks in America [and the first slave holder in American history Anthony Johnson] owned whites and blacks as slaves. As white slaves and indentured servants decreased from Scotland/Ireland/Germany, the need for African slaves increased. By around 1756, it became mostly black slavery in America. According to John Adams, white labor was preferred by most to black labor at that time. Joseph Stalin enslaved an estimated 14.5 million of his own people [Russians]. There were white slaves in the south during the Civil War. There are accounts of white slaves in Virginia. As well, in letters between John Bell Hood and General Sherman, Sherman offered help to the citizens of Atlanta and slaves black and white after the fall of Atlanta (indicating the presence of white slaves in Georgia).

    Did you know poor whites like slaves had to git a pass? I mean, a remit like as slaves, to sell anythin an to go places, or do anythin Jest as we Colored people, dey had to go to some big white man like Colonel Allen, dey did.....0ld Marster wuz more hard on dem poor white forks den he wus on us ******s......two sets of white folks slaves up my way....Dese two families worked on..Allen's farm as we did Off from us on a plot called Morgan's lot, there dey lived as slaves jes like us colored fo'ks Yes de poor whiteman had some dark an tough days. like us poor ******s I mean worked lashed an treated, sore of dem, jest as pitiful an unmerciful.”
    -Charles Charley Virginia Slave Narratives


    African Slaves Coming to America- The Source of American Slaves

    Slavery was not invented by Americans, it was inherited from Great Britain. Americans did not go to Africa and kidnap free blacks to force them into slavery. The slaves brought over from Africa were already enslaved by their own people; before 1820, no free blacks came to America. However, when the slaves did come to America they would usually be given the chance to buy or earn their freedom. Without the help from Africans, the transatlantic slave trade would not have been profitable and would not have come to America. As one slave ship captain said in the 1700's, “I have only transported them from one master to another.” Slavery in Africa was around before any white man came to Africa, and lasted long after slavery was ended in America. The origins of the slavery of Africans comes from Africa, not America, thousands of years before the first white man purchased a black slave. When American slave ships came to Africa, slavery was an already booming export of Africa. Most of African slaves had been sold and gone west to Arab Muslims and Asia. Africans enslaved their own people in numbers far greater than any country in the world; slavery being Africa’s number one export. Slavery was so common it was often used as money or payment; soldiers were sometimes paid with slaves. In some places in Africa, as much as 90% of the population was enslaved. Estimates in 1860 in Central Africa suggest a ratio of 3-1 slave to free man existed. Zanzibar's population was 75% slaves. The quality of life for the African slave that was brought to America improved in every-way (see below for more details).
     
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    Who Abolished Slavery in Africa?

    Some African countries maintained legal slavery until 2007, such as the African Muslim country of Mauritania. There was no abolition movement within Pagan/Muslim Africa to end slavery before the American civil war. It was the white Christian pressure to abolish slavery in Africa. No race gets blamed more for slavery than whites, yet no race has done more to abolish slavery than whites.

    Blacks in slavery in Africa versus American servitude

    The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially & physically.”
    -Anti-slavery Confederate General Robert E. Lee on slavery


    All this has been done at an enormous sacrifice of time and money, an exspance, indeed, which all the governments of Europe and all the christian missionaries, weather Romanist or protestant, could never have effected in five centuries”
    -Sir Charles Lyle in 1855 after noting all the advancements of slaves in America over blacks in Africa


    Slaves as a race were neither over worked- nor treated with cruelty. It is absurd to suppose the contrary... nowhere the negro is left to himself in Africa has reached any higher stage of civilization than he possessed as a southern slave. His hours of labor were shorter, and his diet more plentiful, than those of the English agricultural labor"
    -Englishmen Henry Latham


    What happened in America and the south is better described as servitude, not slavery. As was common in America, north and south, the word “slaves” was usually used, they were referred to as servants. In true slavery, such as in pagan Africa, the master has 100% control over the slave, the slave has no value, no rights and no christian ethic of the master. Slaves cannot buy there freedom, do not get paid, there welfare is not considered, do not revive medical care, they are not taken care of when they are old and are generally worked to death. American servants were treated far better than the slaves of Africa; their lives had improved in every way. They received a better diet, education, medical care, security, along with working less, having a longer life span and having their spiritual and physical lives improve vastly.

    "In importing Africans, we do them no harm; we only transfer them from a state of slavery at home to a state of slavery attended by fewer calamities here [In america]"
    Slave trader Theodore Dwight of Connecticut before a Congressional committee


    In pagan Africa, slaves had no value and no rights. They were completely under the control of the owner and most never lasted a year. They were underfed, overworked and endured more than what any human could handle. Slaves in Africa often did not make the trip to where they were to be sold or worked before dying. Babies and the weak and the old would simply die and be left behind or remain chained up and dragged along by family members during travels. It was common place that a chief or king would attack and kill/enslave entire villages; this happened all over Africa. The slaves were subjected to the most brutal forms of torture and treatment. Often hundreds and thousands of slaves were put to death when a local pagan king or chief died, so that the king or chief would have them as slaves in the afterlife. Slaves were kept in cages and fattened up to be eaten in pagan cannibalistic African areas. In Africa, slaves were kept alive to be tortured longer and were punished and tortured in the most horrific manners. There were multiple massive slave breeding areas. Babies were impaled in front of their mothers, people were cooked alive, and many other horrible atrocities were commonly done to slaves in Africa.

    Some blacks kept there pagan ways, had whites not curbed their mumbo-jumboism [paganism] it would not be safe to go out his door at night”
    -Rias Body Georgia slave narratives


    If it wasn't for the influence of the white race in the South, the Negro race wold revert to savagery within a year! why, if they knew for dead certain thir is not a policeman or officer of the law in Columbus tonight, the good Lord only knows what they'd,do tonight”
    -Uncle Wash Georgia Slave Narratives


    In 1861 a Georgia slave Berry Harrison published a pamphlet titled “Slavery and abolitionism, as viewed by a Georgia slave.” In it he said the abolitionist agitators were the worst enemy to the blacks and that slaves here were much better off than in Africa. In 1863 Vermonter John Henry Hopkins said “the south has done more than any people on earth for the African race.” Blacks were not taken from some African paradise; life in Africa was hard and often very short. Slavery existed in Africa and would continue to legally into the 21st century. The vast majority of the slaves brought to America were already in slavery in Africa and simply sold by slave traders. The family unit almost did not exists in west Africa; pagan customs made for a man to have multiple wives and his wives were often treated as personal slaves. Many of the slaves came from cannibalistic regions. If anything, the condition of life for American slaves was vastly improved by leaving the warlike pagan societies in Africa. As one former African slave who came to be enslaved in America said, in Harper's weekly 1860, “I was a slave in Africa, and I do not wish to return there, I'd rather be a slave to the white man in this country than be a slave to the black man in my country." As the well known scientist Charles Lyle noted above, nothing did or could improve the condition of the African slave, as much or as fast as American servitude, should it than be so condemned as the greatest of evil?

    Our Negroes here are in paradise in comparison with the negro slave in Africa”
    -Historian Matthew Estes, 1847


    It was mercy brought me from my pagan land” [Senegal]
    -Slave Phillis Wheatley



    Beneficial lasting effects of slavery on blacks in America

    No I am not so foolish as to trust my life and property in a country [ Liberia] that is governed by black men”
    -Former slave of Jefferson Davis after being told to go to Liberia Quoted in myths of american slavery


    Blacks in America today live better than anywhere in Africa. They enjoy a higher standard of living, longer life span, higher literacy rate, lower death rate, lower infant death rate, higher income, and more security. Because slavery brought them here, blacks today in the US enjoy a better standard of living than any other blacks in the world. Slavery still exists in certain countries in Africa today. In Mississippi where the standard of living is lowest in America for blacks, it is still better than the best African country can offer on any one determination factor in standard of living. For example, in Burundi life expectancy is 42, in Sierra Leone it is 26.5. Somalia and many other countries in Africa have a large percent of their population starving to death. South Africa is the rape capital of the world.

    In Tanzania, elderly woman are executed as witches; often for “skin trade,” a pagan belief that human skin provides protection from evil spirits and demons. In Zimbabwe, one quarter of the population has AIDS, as well as two thirds the world's cases of HIV. The average income in Africa is $500 per year. Civil war devastates populations in Rwandan, Sudan and other countries. In America, blacks can make millions playing basketball, become president, or any other position they choose and work to achieve. The education level in Mississippi, which has the lowest in the US, is higher than any African country. Keith B. Richburg in his book, Out of Africa: a Black Man Confronts Africa, he notices the great difference were he reports on Africans killing and mutilating other Africans. As well he reports on the condition of life in Africa, and ends up being thankful his ancestors were brought over on slave ship long ago.
     
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    Free blacks in the confederacy/ Black men as slave owners in the confederacy/ Native American men as slave owners in the confederacy

    Free Blacks

    There were thousands of free blacks in the south; in Virginia alone there were over 58,000 free blacks before the war. Virginia freed more slaves before 1861 than NY, NJ, Pennsylvanian and New England combined. In 1830 free blacks made up 24% of the population of New Orleans, by far the the largest southern city. Free blacks owned firearms and used whip on their slaves as punishment. Many blacks entered the middle class and some became “rich” plantation owners, earning many times that of the average white southerner. Many notable confederate figures released their slaves and were anti slavery, such as Robert E. Lee and John Randolf.

    America's first slave owner

    America's first slave owner (not indentured servant, but slave being life long property) was Anthony Johnson from Virginia in 1653. He was a black man who owned John Castor, a black man, and another white man. In the court case Johnson vs Parker in Northampton county Virginia, it was declared that the two men he owned were his property for life.

    Black men who owned slaves in the confederacy

    There were thousands of free black men who were slave owners in the confederacy; who supported slavery and the south. In the 1830 census, there were more than 10,000 free men of color who owned slaves; from South Carolina, Louisianan, Virginia, and Maryland alone. Black plantation owners hired white “labours” to work on plantations alongside black slaves. Black owners used whips and the same punishments as white owners did on their slaves. Slave ownership was common among free blacks. In South Carolina in 1840, the percent of free blacks owning slaves was between 72.1-77.7%. In South Carolina, many black slave owners did not release the slaves after war, instead they were forced to by the federal government.

    Black slave owners were generally as wealthy as white slave owners. A colored master near Canve River, LA had 7 plantations, owned 15,000 acres, worked more than 379 slaves valued at $1,000,000. The following are examples of black men and women who owned slaves: Auguste Donatto of St. Laundry Parish, LA owned a 500 acre plantation and at least 70 slaves. Justus Angel and Mistress L. Horry owned 84 slaves. Widow C. Richards and her son P.C. Richards owned over 100 slaves. Antoine Dubuclet's estimated value was $264,000; the average white southerner's value was less than $4,000. The Metoyer family of LA owned 400 black slaves. John Stanley of south Carolina owned 163 slaves. William Ellison of South Carolina owned over 100 acres and over 60 slaves. He also had a reputation for his brutal treatment of slaves (chaining up misbehaving slaves), slave breeding practices, and would not allow any of his slaves to buy their freedom.

    Early black heroes and patriots of the Revolution and elected officials

    During the American Revolution blacks and whites fought together. There were many black heroes and patriots of the war unknown to most today. Black heroes like Peter Salem, the hero of Bunker Hill; James Armistead, the hero of Yorktown and America’s first double spy. There were other battles, such as Lexington, where black patriots fought and were heroes of the battle. The first American shot dead in the war was a black man.

    There were early black elected officials like Wentworth Cheswell, who was first elected in 1768 and then elected to multiple offices from 1768-1817. Thomas Hercules was another, elected in 1792. Blacks were elected to congress in the 1800's. There were early black federal American elected officials such as black Judge Winthrop Chestnut, who was elected as judge in 1775 in New Hampshire. Joseph Hayne Rainey overcame slavery to become the first African American elected to the U. S. Congress, even presiding over the U. S. House. There were many other early black heroes such as Absalom Jones, or Benjamin Bennker, who was born in 1731 and would become what Thomas Jefferson called “The greatest scientist in American history.”

    The first self made woman millionaire in America was African American madam C.J Walker. “I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations….I have built my own factory on my own ground.” There were free blacks in the North and South who voted; Baltimore had more black votes than whites. More blacks than whites in Maryland voted to ratify the constitution
     
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    Opinions Toward Slavery and Blacks in America Before the Civil war- The Americn Revolution and the Generation Following 1776-1830

    In the period of the American revolution the interest of the south in slavery declined”
    -Historian Francis B Simkins, quoted in Myths of American slavery


    Regret for the presence of the African on the soil, was the universal felling of that generation which succeeded the revolution”
    -Thomas Jefferson speaking of Virginia, Quoted in a defense of Virginia and the south R. L. Dabney


    There was a growing felling all over the south for its abolition”
    -Jeff Davis CSA president, The life and death of Jefferson Davis


    Founders View of Slavery

    The American revolution gave an enormous impetus to the struggle against slavery”
    -Robert William Fogel The Rise and Fall of American Slavery


    Upwards of 70% of the early Americans founders were anti-slavery abolitionist. But the individual states had power to determine their own slavery laws. While a few states continued to allow slavery, most did not. The states were allowed this individual control with the agreement that the slave trade would be outlawed in 20 years. Before the revolution, many Americans tried numerous times to end slavery before the war, yet England would not allow it. Once we were our own nation many founders and Americans released their slaves or outlawed slavery in their state. Many in the south wanted to end slavery including slave holders. Abolitionist worked together in the North and South, yet disagreed on how to end slavery. Northerners generally wanted slaves to go back to Africa, or simply let them free in America; Others [North and South] wanted them educated before letting them free. Southerners generally wanted slaves brought back to Africa and desired financial support for the loss of money associated with letting slaves go free. Since almost the entire southern economy was agrarian, to lose all the slaves would put the masters and family at risk of starvation. For example, a former slave said of his master,

    I cannot forget old massa. He was good and kind. He never believed in slavery but his money was tied up in slaves and he didn't want to lose all he had. I knows I will see him in heaven and even though I have to walk ten miles for a bite of bread I can still be happy to think about the good times we had then.”
    -Gus Brown, Virginia Slave Narratives


    If slavery did not now exist amongst them, they would not introduce it If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up.... When southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery, than we; I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists; and that it is very difficult to get rid of it, in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how to do myself. If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do, as to the existing institution”
    -Abraham Lincoln


    Virginia outlawed the slave trade on October the 5th 1778 years before the federal. In 1787 the American states, north and south, unanimous outlawed slavery for states wishing to come into union from the west, thus limiting slavery [northwest ordinance]. After American gained its independence from England. In 1789 Georgia outlawed the slave trade 10 years before federal law would take effect. North Carolina outlawed the trade in 1794. In 1807, Representative Peter Early of Georgia declared before a congressional committee “We of the south consider slavery a dreadful evil.” By 1827, 4/5 of abolitionist organizations were from the south, both slave owning and non slave owning members.

    Four-fifths of the people of his state, one of the oldest slave states, would be entirely free from it [slavery] were it possible”
    -Nehemiah Adams a South Side View of Slavery 1854


    The number of slaves let free [with no monetary compensation] by slave owners in the two decades after the ratification of the US constitution doubled each decade. In 1822, America purchased Liberia in Africa for returning slaves. In 1828 the governor of Mississippi, the state with the largest population of slaves and producer of cotton, said “slavery is an evil at best.” The 1832 the Mississippi constitution limited slavery imports to the state. 1832 Virginia politician Charles Faulkner said, “Slavery, it is admitted, is an evil.” On June 9, 1832 Virginia legislature George Dinwiddie said, “Slavery is an evil.” In 1835, a southern slave owner said of abolitionism “So also is the south, with but a few exceptions.” Clearly, overall, north and south, was just as the founders said and thought, slavery was dying of natural causes.

    When the chains of the slave are broken to pieces it must be by a southern hand and thousands of southern gentleman are already extending their arms,ready to strike the blow”
    -Northerner Joseph H Ingrahman of free people of color in north 1835
     
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    1830-1860 Slavery in the South begins to grow and move away from the founders

    Before the devilment of the cotton interests, public sentiment warranted and sustained such action [abolition]
    -General assembly of the Presbyterian church


    There were two main factors that caused abolition to die off. First was cotton. Slaves were generally used on sugar plantations [white and black], however with the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney, it made mass produce of cotton very valuable, and was best grown in the southern climate. With large money to be had, the moral Christian and southern abolitionist movement that was growing abated. In 1791, only 400 cotton bales were produced in the United States; by 1860, 3,841,416 bales were produced in the south, 2/3 of the world’s production. Some have said the invention of the cotton gin was responsible for the Civil War.

    Had the cotton gin of Massachusetts inventor Eli Whitney not come on the scene in the late 1700’s, African slavery in this country was most likely doomed. The antislavery and emancipation feeling in the South was ascendant, but thwarted by profitable slave-trading and hungry cotton mills in New England which gave rise to more plantations in the South, and the perpetuation of slavery.”
    -Bernhard Thuersam- Director Cape Fear Historical Institute NC


    The second factor was the south’s reaction to northern abolitionist. During the second great awaking in America [Large Christian conversion], large numbers converted to Christ and the leading preachers started preaching slavery not just as a morally wrong as had been preached by previous abolitionist pastors, but as a sin in of itself. Southern theologians objected. This caused northern abolitionist to demand immediate freeing of slaves with no financial support to the slave owners. This is because sin does not deserve financial support or any help, but must be stopped immediately. The southerners [abolitionist] wanted financial support and a slow release of slaves to Africa. Abolitionist from the north went down south and agitated blacks and whites to rise up in violence against masters, such as the Nat Turner rebellion in 1831.

    the south was just on the eve of abolishing slavery, the abolitionist arose, and put it back within its innermost entrenchments”
    -Nehemiah Adams a South Side View of Slavery 1854

    This caused the south to push back harder against the northern abolitionist and enforce harsh “slave codes.” This led to some masters no longer allowing slaves to learn to read for fear they would read abolitionist material and rise up against the owners. North Carolina’s free blacks could no longer vote. Northern abolitionists started to be viewed as dangerous and radicals. The south was concerned with a mass release of slaves in their states [former pagan cannabis from Africa and recent slave uprising in Hati and other places causes major fear] and did not want the entire southern economy to collapse; an economy which was based on cotton and agriculture. This pushed the north and south apart. Eventually all things southern became evil, and two distinct cultures and ways of life started to grow. The north starting hating southern culture and the south starting hating northern culture. From this distain of each other’s culture, the feud became more than just about slavery. As the nation grew so did the southern states, including slave states as they went west expanding from just the few original slave colonies of early America.

    Slavery today

    You know that moment when you read something, and then immediately have to re-read it because you cannot believe it is true? That happened to me when I read that the levels of slavery and people trafficking today are greater than at any point in history.”
    -Freedom Project on cnn.com, Modern Day Slavery a Problem That Cant be Ignored


    Trafficking is a crime that involves every nation on earth, and that includes our own”
    -Hilary Clinton


    Each year 800,000 to 900,000 human beings are bought,sold, or forced across the worlds boarders”
    -President George Bush, 2003


    What many are unaware of is that there are more slaves today than in any other time in history. Global estimates of those enslaved today range from 21-36 million, with 100,000 enslaved at this moment in the US. According to the book Not for sale- the return of the global slave trade “More slaves live in bondage today than were bartered during four centuries of the trans Atlantic slave trade.” It is a trade that is worth $32 billion annually. In west Africa, 200,000 children are sold into slavery each year. As president Barack Obama said, “It's time to call human trafficking what it is slavery.” Often they are labor slaves, sex slaves, or slave soldiers. Among them, labor slaves and sex slaves are treated far worst than the typical slave was in the old south. Enslaved prostitute and forced labor slave are payed less, work more, is beaten more, is less healthy, has less free time, has worse living quarters. Given that it is illegal [ in USA], many are locked up and hidden when they are not working and their entire lives are confined to the work place with no laws to protect them. There is a larger demand for slaves today than at any point in history, even though it is illegal. Unlike in the old south, where a slave was a investment, to be cared for, today's slave once they lose their value are discarded and mistreated.
     

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