Is Slavery Really Crazy?

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148 years ago slavery was legal. It was common and ubiquitous to buy or sell individuals. Anyone who considered that slavery ought to be abolished, were called crazy. Certainly that long ago and many years afterwards, it was legal to beat your dog to death and anyone that perceived the thought that maybe there should be a law against that, were called crazy. 93 years ago women did not have the right to vote and anyone who thought, “well maybe they should have a chance to vote”, were called crazy. So what have we learned from history? Hasn’t history shown us that the crazy ones are usually the visionaries, the prophets, and the geniuses? It is kind of like how animal activists Ari Saunders likes to say, “ we are not crazy, we are

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