They were once valuable commodities
known also for their potential for those
who judged age, temperament, sturdy
construction as workplace essentials
capable of enriching the buyer. But
they were also quite expendable since
there were plentiful others where they
came from to be rounded up, herded
transported and displayed with pride
as new acquisitions capable as breeding
stock, as physical specimens of hard
labour ably withstanding harsh treatment
inclement weather and insubstantial
investments in housing, integuments and
food, an irresistible draw for they could
also withstand inhumane types of extreme
punishment. In the final analysis their
presence represented the armature of a
nation's economy. A nation which now
finds itself without answer to the charges
levelled against it as slavers and human
rights slackers wealthy, influential but
torn asunder, eternally damned.
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