Alia:
It grieves me that you are where you are in your thoughts and feelings, as well as the Black Commentator. The deceived are deceived and do not know it. Unfortunately this is where you are, not to mention potentially impacted by fear.
One must see slavery in more than one historical or personal perspective. Slavery comes in many forms. One of the replies to your post placed the whole context of Ms. Brown's comments in their reply, and they make complete logical sense.
A government, allowed unchecked expansion, is a critically dangerous thing and will take a downward spiral to enslavement of the people to serve the selfish, twisted purposes of government...then implode. That is what the Constitution and Bill of Rights was to do...put limits on government...not on the people.
We all must cherish and defend our rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" with respect and dignity.
The best thing is, you are here and you are reading.
Slavery does indeed come in many forms. Janice Rogers Brown was addressing "slavery" in context of bad, not constitutional laws. The Black Commentator was abusing the text -- and likening such into a very abusive definition of the very word "slavery.
Not to be outdone, I myself more than 10 years ago likened abortion to slavery -- the unborn living or not at the whimsy of the mother.
But there is another area, which I might address to those who are of the "very total" libertarian or its flipside, very total liberal bent: Just because there are taxes, does not indicate slavery.
The type of "slavery" folks like the Black Commentator writers write about I fight -- it is about world domination by a "one world government" aided and abetted by a "one world religion".
Grieving is only appropriate when there is a death. The US as a free nation is not dead.
Take your grieving elsewhere.
... and you signed up ONLY yesterday to deliver that missive about your "grief"?