By creating a legally binding, race-based, intergenerational, perpetually oppressed class of human beings, Virginia revealed that all that nonsense in the colony’s first charter about God, liberty, and the “true religion” was a farce. Slavery was an American idea, not a product of the time. No law was passed in England that legalized slavery. France’s Code noir was similar, but it would come two decades after Virginia’s declaration. From its inception, America was always a pyramid scheme where the wealthy benefited from the labor of the poor. And truly, there is only one term that befits
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