All this talk about slavery stalking our national soul and wounding our consciousness, or whatever, is ridiculous. I grew up in the Sixties and don’t recall anyone talking like that, even blacks. My school history texts contained an appropriate section on slavery and its abolition. It was generally agreed that slavery had been an unfortunate thing but that it had benefits for blacks as well, namely that it brought them to the one nation on earth that provided them with the highest standard of living.
Most blacks that I grew up with never mentioned slavery unless somehow it came up by coincidence in conversation. If that happened, they were pretty realistic about it. No man should own another man, they’d say, but they also were glad they were here and not in Africa. They didn’t walk around all day wailing that slavery stalked our national consciousness and wounded our national soul, and that we needed to dwell on it all the time, find some way to compensate for it, or that whites needed to rent their garments and lie in sackcloth and ashes for a couple of centuries in shame.
Slavery is not abolished nor is it exclusive to Native Africans. Slavery is still practiced right here in American as well a global issue.
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