Has anyone really asked what was wrong with American slavery? I definitely do not want to be a slave and that is the dividing line as to who is a slave and who is not. One does not become a slave as a consequence of just being captured and forced to work. Our ancestors were very deliberate in chosing slaves. They wanted people that would put up with the concept. Africans seem to fit the bill as there own familes are the ones who sold them into the institution. They then put up with the institution an rarely tried to get freedom or kill their owners. Look at the devotion of certain peoples to particular poltical parties and the fact that they are really enslaving themselves. The real aberration in history is that we have relatively little slavery today and for the last 100 years. That is a very strange concept in world history. So why are we feeling any guilt? The subsequent racism that has existed since the War of Northern Aggression is the responsibility of the Lincoln administration and the aftermath of the war.
