The Emancipation Proclamation freed most of these captives but, the psychological, social, and economic damage of slavery would persist for Africans in America for years to come.
It is said that the real slaves were not the African, but the white Americans who kept Human Beings captive.
There has to be something internally warped within the "Being" of a person to believe without a doubt that they can enslave another Human.
So, the slave was not the captive, but the plantation owner of that person.
The captives were innocent of the actions thrust upon them, whereas, the southern society that engaged in buying and selling Human Beings, were themselves captives of their own Slave Consciousness.
The African American today has wrongly suffered with the indignities of being "enslaved" because they've been made to believe there's something fundamentally wrong with who they are.
And yet, those who gladly enslaved Africans have never owned nor understood the intrinsic mental illness that their "slave consciousness" has brought upon them as a people and a country, to this very day.
The American psyche will never be completely healed unless and until the inherent and original "slave consciousness" that's been harbored, protected, and revisited on this nation, is eradicated forever.
Love and peace in our lifetime
Esprit
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