How is this a debate? Because seriously by definition if someone was a slave and then slavery ends
then they now are free.
I suppose someone could argue there are other ways societies interfere with true freedom (such as
segregation for a while, a delay in other rights, etc), but the existence of those other factors
does not repeal the fact they were slaves and then not slaves.
Actually freedom is always relative anyway. The only way to be 100% free is to be a wild animal
unhindered by any laws or society. There are shades of degrees of freedom. Current African
Americans have more freedom than their relatives did during segregation, and their relatives during
segregation had more than their own relatives during slavery.
Wow.....of course it did...oppression, at least on the legal spectru, stop but racism still
continued which really begs the question, were they fully free or would african Americans always be
tied back to slavery via words and phrases, you know what word I'm talking about
11 May 2009 11:30
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