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Thu 25 Oct, 2012 08:46 pm
Re: American Slave - The Torture, Cruelty and Mistreatment of African American Slaves
Did most slaves prefer freedom over captivity given their experiences during reconstruction period? Freedom and starvation over slavery and security. Reading the interviews with slaves it appears 50:50. I also find it quite surprising that a lot of the ex-slaves that gave interviews where still missing the plantation and in some cases their owners/masters. Wondering what other peoples thoughts are on this.
If you have read just a sampling, picked by someone who may or may not be pushing an agenda, of ex-slave commentary, you cannot be sure if fifty percent missed slavery. Expressing uncertainty over the future is not necessarily yearning to go back. If you are thinking it was a great way to live, you are sadly mistaken.
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