One last comment before moving on: slavery was bad. But what we have today is worse. The slum districts of our big cities are much worse for the individuals in them than the typical slave’s life was in 1830. We have vast numbers of employed and underemployed and unemployed citizens who are slaves of the dehumanizing forces that have ruined America….
Patrick Michael Murphy, “How the West Was Lost,” p.25.
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