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Warpy

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4. I'm still haunted by a visit to the Charleston slave market
Sun Feb 17, 2013, 06:41 PM
Feb 2013

when I was ten. They had ledgers and bills of lading under glass and reading how human beings being sold like cattle were described was a terrible but necessary education.

The knowledge of what slavery actually was should never be pushed aside as "something that's over, we don't do it any more." As long as men with that mindset exist, and they do, we need to be educated about it so we can be vigilant that it never happens again.

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