So for a society who prides herself on the basis of freedom, and who has based its moral code off of Judeo-Christian law which claims that all men are created equal; how could we possibly commit such a cockamamie violation of humanitarian rights like slavery? ... When someone describes America the first thing most would say is that it is the land of opportunity where all men are created equal and are endowed with unalienable rights. ... When the settlers in the colonies began to have a need for cheap and effective labor, Africans were turned into slaves and sold off to white men as property. ...

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