The history of legalized human trafficking in America is a story that should be widely known and told:

• How did it start?
• What was taught to attempt to justify it and to keep it going?
• What was it like for its victims and its perpetrators?
• Why did it last so long?
• How could such oppression be embraced by a society that treasured liberty?
• Who were the courageous people who openly opposed it?
• Why weren’t there more of them?
• Why are its perpetrators honored while the abolitionists who spoke out against it are forgotten (or even villainized)?
• Why did so many American churches support and embrace such cruelty?

The honest story of slavery in America should not be forbidden history.