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^^^ I agree here, but I think we are too quickly bypassing another option - the option to seek freedom.
One of my ancestors escaped slavery along with her brother who died in the process. These were Africans, straight off the boat, people who had not yet suffered the generations of brain-washing others were forced to endure. They were proud, strong, and their only option, as they saw it, was to regain their freedom or die trying. She instilled in her children (and they in theirs and so on) a tradition of never submitting to anyone (for better or worse lol). To this day, that lineage of my family is the most stubborn, honorable, entrepreneurial people I have ever known. Had I been born during that time, I hope that I would have had the courage to do what they did.
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