.How do you think the concept of slavery started, but a stronger family taking in the children of a weaker family and telling them "you'll work, if you wanna eat"?
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FWIW our founding fathers were predominantly slaveholders. And altho they did own slaves they also assumed a moral responsibility to provide for their health and welfare. This in an age when famines happened every other year in any nation state in Europe.
The bottom line is that the guys who wrote our constitution considered slavery to be as moral as adopting children and with as much justification.
Don't sugar coat it. By the time our constitution was written, slavery was industrialized and a VERY profitable model for business labor.
The abuse of slaves, in spite of those stories that surface of 'happy' slaves, is another testament to the low value of human life, especially when sub-defined as "labor".
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