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COL Mustard

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1. How Can A Human Own Another Human?

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Sun Feb 7, 2021, 07:15 PM

Feb 2021

I have never understood the concept. I know it's been around for millennia, but I don't understand it. When I was a small child, I was told that certain people were bred for servitude and were just fulfilling their destiny. I didn't believe it then and I don't believe it now.

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Julia Chinn, Enslaved Wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, 9th U.S. Vice President 1837 [View all] appalachiablue Feb 2021 OP

How Can A Human Own Another Human? COL Mustard Feb 2021 #1

Another egregious justification 'bred for servitude.' appalachiablue Feb 2021 #2

We find the concept so repugnant today gladium et scutum Feb 2021 #3