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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (724498)	2/7/2006 6:25:51 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Guess? Probably a combination of several factors: 1) Raw numbers (millions of Africans sold into slavery on other continents, with no hope of return or escape). 2) Persistence of servitude --- a white could always hope to escape & then blend into the society of free persons att some other locale... not so a black. 3) The combined weight of all the legal efforts made to see that Slavery, the Institution, endured: Making the teaching of literacy a felony, etc., and all the exogenous efforts to keep a people firmly 'down': rape, lynching, beatings, removal of property rights, etc., etc. The sad old refrain. Things enforced not just on the original enslaved individual... but on all future descendants.