Slavery
Some time ago I was told that I had white privilege because I was white, that America was founded to protect slavery, and that I should apologize for black slavery with reparations to Blacks. Those claims perked my interest and so I decided to do some research on the history of slavery, how it ended, and the role that Whites had in it. Here is what I found, collected from multiple sources. (Note: this is a long post.) What it is A Slave is a human being who is owned as property by, and is absolutely subject to the will of another, divested of all freedom and individual rights. (Webster’s …