--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Patrick King
<abrasax93@...> wrote: Anyone with foresight would have
seen
> how it would turn out. But none of us with
out
> two-hundred year vantage point, are fit to judge
those
> people who lived it. One could argue that slavery
with
> food, shelter and clothes thrown in is a better
deal
> than $5.50 per hour minimum wage and you figure
out
> how to pay $4 a gallon to get to work. Change
is
> mostly cosmetic.
>
Not so cosmetic. The idea of being mere merchandise is
unimaginable to us fortunate enough not to have been slaves.
The slaves couldn't emigrate, as the starving populations of
many countries have traditionally done when the going got
really rough because of war, famine, brutal regimes, pogroms
and so on.
Best,
mrt
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