Terence George Craddock Slavery Poems

there has always been an elite class
the coal mine owner with coal miners
in the dark historic working 12 hours
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break centuries
millennia of pain
inflicted agony
echoing back
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honest Abe did you forget
or did you have no time
for a great wrong never righted
too busy embroiled in a civil war
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Native American slavery decreased
around 1730 due to wars tribes fought

disrupted by devastating wars
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in 1698 'Parliament allowed competition
among importers of enslaved Africans
raising purchase prices for slaves in Africa'
Native Americans were cheaper in cost
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under legislature law
what value
is placed
upon human lives?
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