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Do you have Children?

I ask this because there are people who have children who beat their children with electrical cords and burn them with cigerettes and hot washer to punish them? If you have children are you a child abuser? You must be if you have children correct them, or require them to go to work to earn their living. While such conclusions are extreme it is no diffeerent that what you are drawing.

The point is that there ARE bad parents in this world today. Our Child services agencies deal with them every day of the years with no holidays. We have more runaway children today than there were runaway slaves. That does not make ALL parent bad.

The same was true of Slave owners. The depravity of man is in the eye of the beholder. You quote one entry from the 2,300 slave naratives and 4,000,000 slaves. There are other naratives which will tell you that their life under a good master was the best time of their life.

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