Is humanity in the final steps of becoming into slavery?
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Thanks for bringing up this important issue.\nMost of the things you mentioned have beneficial uses.  The danger if they are misused.  I think the Bush administration has demonstrated how our rights can be undermined.  They are talking of retaining the prisoners in Cuba for the rest of their lives, without charges or benefit of legal defense.\nThe only way to protect our rights is to participate in the process of government.  I hope anyone who reads this is ready to defend liberty with their vote on the 7th.
309572
All people were sent into a disguised form of slavery which they still wallow in today!
615459
slavey? \n\nSlavery has not ended for everyone. There is currently sex trafficking, for example, where women are sold into sexual servitude by their families who don't value women as part of their culture or women are abducted and forced into slavery.\n\nSlavery for the Jews lasted during before World War II until after World War II where the Nazis forced them into starvation slavery where they were forced to work until they slowly starved to death. Those deemed to be unable to work when they got to the camps were thrown into fires or gas chambers or killed by other means. \n\nAfrican American slavery ended after the Civil War.\n\nThere are other forms of slavery alive and well all around the world. Do you like chocolate? Cocoa beans are harvested by slave children who often die at a young age. There are too many forms of current slavery to list here.
687052
This does not apply to anyone during the current times. It applied to the Old Testament people, but now we are in the New Testament. Instead we are commanded to BE the servants for other people, but not in slavery but more in humbleness, trying to help the person out.
939183
It isnt really un christian technicly. As much as we'd like to think it is considering how vile a practice slavery is. But just as Christians finally saw the end of slavery (in America anyway) They also saw the beginning of it (Again, in America)They took it from the ancient Romans and made it so much worse. In ancient times, slaves were the people of the conquered nations of Rome, and the Romans generally treated them very well. Even making them Roman citizens after a period of time, so it was a bit like the endentured servitude of the early Americas. Christians perverted the alrady amoral practice into enslaving entire tribes for life because they felt they were "Heathens" and doomed to hell anyway. Although we are now much more enlightened, and most of us know that no one person is better than another, in those days they saw the slaves as inferior, which was as much a midieval prejudice as a Christian one.
1022074
The Bible is true and anyone who says it's fiction needs to shut up. And slavery sucks black people have been slaves since 1600 and still we are not treated like fair. Some white people treat us blacks great but most are racists, rednecks, or hillbilles. Now slavery isn't great at all. When blacks were slaves the white people depended on them because they did all the work well they did everything. Now why don't people get a maid or a waiter they aren't slaves and they can quit at anytime.
309233
Didn't know that slavery was classed as an institution??  It divided the whole country and caused a terrible war.  It also made human beings treat others like animals.
38346
How hasn't it... I am a 7th generation daughter of a slave and Looking back over the last 141 yrs, our people have went from being slaves of white owners to being slaves of themselves...like gangs and racial seperation among ourselves. We need to wake up and get our crap together.
435249
I resent you saying that I have the same mind set as my ancestors whom you claim owned slaves.  All white people did not own slaves, in fact, a lot of them were against it and fought for the freedom of the slaves.  I have always been on the slaves side when I have read or seen anything about slavery.  Just because I am white does not mean I think slavery is acceptable.  I think it was deplorable!  However, a lot of other people have been wronged in history too, mainly, the indians whom we stole this very land from.  Are you going to make repairations to the indians for the fact that YOUR ancestors stole THEIR land????!!!!!
304686
The context of your question is very broad.\n\nSlavery has existed since the beginning of human history and exists to this very day in certain parts of the world.\n\nIn America, slavery (which President Bush observed recently was America's birth defect) was present at the founding of the nation, and unfortunately incorporated into the Constitution.\n\nOfficially, President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed most of the slaves in the Confederate states.  It officially ended at the cessation of hostilities in the Civil War, but technically in 1867 once new legislatures in the newly emancipated South recognized the Federal mandate.\n\nBelow is a reference link to slavery in the 21st century.
710795
...all those years of slavery, being treated less than animals, and discrimination has worn on us and have made us cold towards whites...\n\nThese emotions have been transferred down through the generations.
428116
no, no, no, Humans were created to be a slave race by aliens...
210170
If there are any black people who actually suffered under slavery still out there and alive, yes. That would be fair. As for blacks alive today, no. They suffer no hardships due to slavery that ended over a century ago. and never forget, it wasn't a brave and Nobel "slave revolt" that ended slavery, it was thousands of White men who died to enforce the emancipation proclamation. America already paid the price, in blood.
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YES!!! \nGo to iabolish.com and find out how you can help. Slavery has not ended, and you can become an abolishionist. People turn a blind toward situations in Africa, especially in Sudan. Everyone can help, you just have to be willing.\n\nIt costs $50 to free a slave! \n\nIn Sudan it's cheaper to by a slave than it is to buy a VCR.\n\nBe informed
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I think the question is how WEREN'T they punished!! \n\nThe slaves were not treated as human beings, they were treated like animals....actually worse than animals....this is a powerful subject....you should definitely do a lot of research into this, there are many resources on the slave trade. Try your local library, ask the librarian for help.
613815
If I remember correctly that is because Europe was the first country to instate slavery and that was from the first European traders when they used to sail to china and stuff.  I am not sure but that is how I believe it all got started.
800269
We have already lost too much freedom. If you have no freedom then you are no more than a slave, and if you are a slave,you do not live a human life. Therefore, you are as good as dead anyway and might as well fight.