@BillRM,
BillRM wrote:
Slavery??????
You are degrading the meaning of the word by using it in the manner you are doing.
Slavery is being for example force onto ships at guns and knives points and placed under conditions where the majority of your fellows ends up dying on the trip.
After leaving the ship you are whip to work in the sugar crane fields of such places as Haiti where you live on average three years.
Slavery is not coming to another county of your own free will and either taking your family with you or sending for them later and being pay for your work.
Shame on you using the word slavery in so light a manner.
Slavery takes many forms including wage slavery, and white slavery, both of which exist beside the traditional chattel slavery still common today... You are clearly a slave to an ideological form of thinking, and instead of using ideas for thought, you use them in place of thought... Consider that even the masters are not completely slave and that none can truly be made a slave against their will... The point of being dragged around in chains has little to do with the situation...Nor did branding... Nor did the details of shipping, which varied, or the uses to which slaves were put, which varied... Surely you can agree, that a man may be as much a slave to his master card as to his visa, and the fact that few who are forced to rely upon credit can ever escape it is profound... If we must take what we are offered and if not, then be dispossessed of all we have accumulated, then are we not slaves... We as a nation used to be able to pay as we went for what we needed... Now, not even the government can escape interest payments, and the price of money is the price of staying alive for some businesses and people... Figure it out dear one... Be thee not stupid; please...
