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Originally posted by nikki1920
If those were my only options, then so be it.

I agree, nikki1920. The beauty of our lives today is that we have a CHOICE to say that we would have never been able to be a slave. I'm sure if any of our ancestors had been interviewed beforehand and asked if they would be able to handle being chained together and forced on a slave ship with inhumane conditions, being sold as property and torn apart from their families, being forced to toil under extreme weather conditions for no pay, being beaten and raped/sodomized at the drop of a dime, and all the other horrors that occurred, they all would have answered with a resounding, HELL NO! The point is that you never know what you can do until are put in a situation where you don't have a choice. The only choice they had was to be a slave, be beaten to death for insubordination or risk escaping, which would result in death or beating 99.99% of the time. So, could I have been a slave? Yes, because there was no other option besides death.