These bookmarks barely scratch the surface of the issue of slavery. In the beautiful country of Ghana in 1994, we toured the Cape Coast slave fortresses, a United Nations Heritage Site which presented a human dimension to the issue of slavery. Whites love to either feel guilty or superior about the issue of slavery in North America and African-Americans love to hit whites over the head with their collective pain. We need, however, to step back and see slavery for what it is.
Slavery is a human issue.
It is the inhumane treatement of one man by another. Slavery did not go away with the emancipation proclimation. It exists today. Nobody holds an exclusive franchise on the ability to be cruel to other humans. Whites have enslaved whites, arabs have enslaved arabs, blacks have enslaved blacks, asians have enslaved asians, North American and South American Indians have enslaved other Indians.