Slavery
* also is illustrative of primitive legal thinking.
* common practice that has at least tacit support of the government of Sudan.
* continues today as tribal militias capture women and children as war booty in the civil war.
* covers the entire historical period.
* degrading and humiliating condition regardless of the master
* denial of basic human rights.
* denies to the enslaved their basic human rights.
* devastating result of the country's civil war.
* discourages arts and manufactures.
* dooms thousands of human beings to hopeless ignorance.
* emphasizes the completeness and the degradation of the state.
* exists because it is popular.
* exists in Sudan
  - various forms in our society
  - when human beings become property
* forcibly uses one person to serve the purposes of another.
* goes back as far as the biblical days
  - to prehistoric times but declined in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire
* horrible practice for the appitimy of humanity.
* human issue.
* immoral, because it violation of the enslaved person's individual rights.
* is abolished in the British Empire
  - French colonies
* is about oppression, exploitation, violence and reprisal
  - power relationships
  - accused of causing a rift between black men and women, too
* is an issue in many countries, including our own
  - obscenity
  - unjust system
  - both an economic transaction between seller and buyer, but also a legal arrangement
  - closely analogous to one of the critical issues of our own day, abortion
  - coercion
* is common practice in parts of Sudan
  - complicated oppression in body, soul, substance, relation, reputation
  - daily rape
  - dead, but the crime of institutionalized racism still exists
  - economic suicide
  - essentially, a human being being sold as a commodity to another person
  - fact in Sudan and just as in Mauritania it is racial in nature
  - forbidden in the United Mexican States
  - freedom
  - illegal unless it is for conviction for a crime
  - incompatible with universal and fundamental human rights
  - key in economic expansion
  - labor
  - legal, but extremely rare
  - misery, especially when the master is harsh, selfish, insensitive, cruel, and powerful
  - non-thinking action, rote behavior, following the impulse desires of the body
  - of a very ancient origin
  - one of the answers capitalism has found
  - practised widely
  - sixty years in the past
  - slavery
  - something imposed upon a human being by another at some moment after birth
* is still alive in pockets around the world
  - legal in Decatur, Alabama
* is the abrogation or infringement of even one of the Unalienable Rights of one person
  - direct control of labor through physical coercion and threat of harm
  - institution whereby one person can hold ownership rights over another
  - largest blight on American history
  - long day of the master over the slave and of nights turned to days
  - most commonly known reason as to why the Civil War began
  - negro system of labour
  - polar opposite of freedom
  - price of ignorance and inaction
  - tie that binds, but the legacy also keeps the two groups apart
  - worst kind of stealing
  - very common in the history of the South
* life with no accomplishment, no achievement, and no meaning.
* makes all work, and it ensures homes, food and clothing for all.
* means death.
* recurring theme in the literature of the Caribbean.
* remains a strongly accepted custom among the people who practice it.
* shared experience.
* still exists and subsidizes capitalists.
* still exists in America
  - parts of Africa, where certain tribes buy and sell their ethnic enemies
* still exists in the Sudan
  - world today
  - today's world
* system in which human beings are owned and forced to work by their master.
* takes different forms in different lands.
* tragic part of the shared histories of all American societies.
* violation, by law, of liberty.
* withering blight upon the prospects, happiness, and freedom of our nation.