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to me how amazing it is that God places<br />
certain slaves with certain slave owners. I<br />
told her God never did such a thing. I did<br />
some research to see what could have made<br />
her think the way she did. I found an article<br />
written in the Awake!-2001.<br />
DARK sweating bodies bent almost in two<br />
shuffles up gangplanks under the crushing<br />
burdens of enormous bales of cotton.<br />
Ruthless overseers drive them on with<br />
rawhide whips. Screaming children are torn<br />
from the arms of weeping mothers and sold<br />
to the highest bidder in auctions. These are<br />
likely the stark, brutal images that come to<br />
mind when you think of slavery.<br />
Ironically, it is said that many slave traders<br />
and slave owners were deeply religious<br />
individuals. Historian James Walvin wrote:
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