Southerners love to read, but sometimes they don't listen very well.
One of the first stories in the Bible tells of how enslaving a large population of foreign people ends up with a city full of frogs and the death of the firstborn. You'd think that'd be a pretty good lesson, but the moment we saw the Spanish making some money on this African slave thing, we wanted in on it.
Even after Nat Turner said he was inspired by Moses and operated on messages from God, we embraced slavery and believed we were righteous. In the end, nearly three-quarters of a million of our firstborn lay dead, our homes and farms burned, our business destroyed, and our stores of treasure depleted or emptied, but the slaves were free. We read, but we don't listen, and it costs us.
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