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Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

Did Slavery Ever Really End in the U.S.?

http://www.opednews.com/articles/...__080523_did_slavery_ever_rea.htm

Excerpt:

If investigated carefully, this question is not nearly as absurd as at first it might seem. Consider this: the institution of slavery had at least two important components, a physical one: involuntary labor enforced under the duress of a tyrannical economic and political system; and the psychological breaking down of the individual minds so that both slave and master would see the slave hierarchy as the only sensible way of life.

About the author:

Retired Foreign Service Officer and past Manager of Political and Military Affairs at the US Department of State. For a brief time an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Denver and the University of Washington at Seattle. A graduate of the National War College and a Phd from the University of Southern California.

(Some good comments & one lousy one at the site below the story. --Mark)