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Old 10-19-2006, 07:02 PM   #1
JayMcGee
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Originally Posted by Buddug
...The best piece on the subject of slavery wins a bottle of top class rum from Martinique .

hand-rolled on the thighs of virginal slaves from Martinique, no doubt....


But, actually, slavery existed at least as far back as the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Back in those days, you made slaves of your defeated enemies and possibly even those of your own nation who couldn't afford the price of bread. It took modern western civilisation to come up with the idea of a 'slave race' who weren't quite human. This belief system, though palpably ridiculous and legistlatavely banned in the 19th Century, actually persisted well into the 21st Century, and is still quite common in many areas of the USA. The irony, of course, is that that particular nation has now succumbed to the yoke of the corporates and its citizens are now slave to the dollar.
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