Henry Wiencek had written:
> ...realize that a slave was not a slave by nature, but was actively 
> compelled
> into enslavement by owners and the legal system.

J South replied:
> Africans were compelled into enslavement, by their African brothers who 
> made
> slaves out of them and sold them for shipment to the New World.  The
> purchasers/owners perpetuated the status under which they purchased the 
> slaves.

My question:
Does your original enslavement by your countrymen, before your sale to 
people from other lands, somehow make you a slave by nature? 

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