The Story of American Slavery

Slavery as it was established in the colony and then maintained and expanded in the nation state of the United States, was a legal institution and entity. Slavery did not simply arise out of nowhere, to become a vital part of the economy. Slavery was a solution and a resource for the rich and powerful of the United States. Slavery brought untold suffering to untold millions. By the mid-1600s a child born to an enslaved woman was itself a slave, from birth. This is perhaps the greatest obscenity of a litany of cruel injustices that form the contours of slavery.

Kayne West described slavery as "a choice". The very idea is so flawed as to sound ridiculous. Slavery was an economy based on cruelty and law where human beings were traded and worked as chattels. Nothing else.