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The Institution of Human Slavery in the New World:

Despite the fact that one of the most fundamental reasons that settlers left the

shores of Europe for the uncertainties of the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries was

to establish a society free from the religious excesses and state-mandated religious

affiliation and freedom, those earliest societies in the Free World succumbed to some of

the worst human failings in the realm of respect for diversity and the human rights of all

people (Equiano, 1789). Specifically, for approximately three-hundred years, the white

men of the New World America enslaved millions of fellow human beings, wrenching

them by force from their families and societies, transporting them in the most brutal

conditions imaginable, and abusing them like working animals (and sometimes worse)

This horrific abuse was predicated on the superficial physical difference of skin color,

and again, with significant input from the Church and its definition of human being.

In time, that same society eventually recognized the errors of its ways and with

great pains that included a devastating Civil War that pitted brother against brother,

finally rectified the abominable situation, although it required nearly another century and

a half

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