“So what if you became a carpenter or a blacksmi

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“So what if you became a carpenter or a blacksmith or a good maid? Your chances of that were not determined by you, it was determined by somebody else. That’s not a rationalization for enslavement.”

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I'm not arguing that even one good thing happened to the people who were ensnared by slavers. What I am trying to say is that many of their descendants are living a life that is far superior to the ones that they would be living had their ancestors not become enslaved.