"Slavery is an abomination!" That's a quote from Thomas Jefferson, the man who wrote the eloquent words in the Declaration of Independence, who also happened to be a slave owner.

The man knew in his heart that slavery was in fact a low point in this country's history. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was an economic measure which broke the back of the Confederacy. Those rich plantation owners would no longer have this free labor market to exploit.

Somehow, I don't feel sorry for them!

It is a fact that poor white folks also worked in the fields right next to the slaves. The difference was, the po' white folks got paid for their labor!

There is no question that some sort of reparations are owed to the families of these unpaid slaves.