Every class and culture have been enslaved ...

Submitted by Rachel Brad (United States), Oct 20, 2014 at 11:39

Throughout history just about every class and culture have been enslaved at one time or another.

Slavery has been around since the dawn of man. So blaming slavery on a certain minority, race, religion is stupid. People enslaved other people; every race has been enslaved before. Races have been enslaved by their own race. So the only people to blame are humans. We do things like that to each other. Slavery, the blame can go both ways. Back then people didn't think like we do now. They weren't concerned about 150 years into the future and where slaves would end up. They were just concerned about what would keep them alive then. Slavery was a franchise and a monopoly.

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