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There can be no doubt about it. Slaves are human beings; and, as human beings,
slaves are both naturally intelligent and naturally free beings. During all the centuries
of slavery, there have always been slaves who could read and/or write. In fact, there
have always been educated and literate slaves. The thoughts of slaves are chronicled.
Anti-slavery musings have even been written by non-slaves who opposed the institution
of slavery. We have the spiritual songs of the slaves, embodying the soulful musings
of thinking and hopeful human beings.
There are mental habits which keep us from knowing the truth about slavery. The
material fact of slavery is both the cause and the source of these mental habits. There
are those who see happy slaves, and who use the natural felicity and the necessary
joviality of human beings, even of enslaved human beings, to justify slavery. The slave
is jovial and cheerful because of life, not because of slavery. Beatitude and contentment
are how slaves manage to survive their slavery.
With the clearness and consistency of a perfect book, we all plainly and clearly know
what slavery is whenever we see it.
"Poetical license is not forbidden, even to socialists."
-- Antonio Labriola |
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Posted by rallen2 on 2008-03-05 13:03:03 | Rating: | Views: 33
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