The still living voice of slavery

Scholars were unaware just how many dead slaves are STILL

    TALKING ! They are still -on tape recordings buried in the basement

    of the Library of Congress -still CONDEMNING in their own moving words

    the horrors of the " peculiar institution ". The forgotten recordings

    were mostly the work of Depression era scholars  connected to  Franklin

    Roosevelt's WPA  .( How savy of THAT MAN to employ the nation's thinkers

    and scholars. They might have gone over to " Uncle Joe " - Stalin ! )

         The book and audio tape is titled : " Remembering Slavery-African

    Slaves Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation "

    ( authors, Ira Berlin and Steven Miller - The New Press )

          Excerpt : " Course dey cry; you think dey not cry when dey was sold

    lak cattle ? "

             It is interesting that Darwin's " Origin of the Species " was

    published in 1859 just before the American Civil War. Later he published

    the even more controversial " Descent of Man ".

           The author of these great scientific works - who studied " primitive

    people " - would never have judged the black race to be anything but

    fully HUMAN - members of homo sapiens .

              Leave it to pious Christians of the last century to make

    a more cruel and FALSE judgment of the " darkies "  as nearly sub -human,

    most fit for slavery.

            Darwin's doctrine is still believed by many to degrade mankind.

    Yet one with this COLD scientific outlook was already ideologically

    armed against the ignorant RELIGIOUS defense of slavery.

           Yes , the TRUTH will make us FREE ! And keep us FREE !