Slavery, Old and New

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

My great-grandfather, and his father before him, established an "underground railway station," within Ohio, for escaped slaves. Both that great-grandfather and his father before him had lived in a time when the London-backed Spanish capture and trafficking in Africans as slaves had brought to the western hemisphere many brave slaves who, like Frederick Douglass, had a fire of freedom surging in their bellies.

Then, among the slaves and their descendants, there were some of a different disposition.

Gradually, as the reversal of emancipation took hold after the tragic electoral events of 1877, a wave of corruption by the same northern Liberal families which had used the "Beecher's Bibles" in the hope of breaking up the U.S.A. to the advantage of London, launched an insidious campaign of attempted soft weakening of the fervor for progress among the children and grandchildren of former slaves, with the intention of "taming them."

Had those Boston and like Liberals succeeded in having their way, the men and women of African descent would have been slaves of a southern Confederacy, still today.

Thus, we could imagine, decades after 1865, the ghosts of two men encountering one another at the fence which separates Heaven from Hell. The one, the ghost of a former slave-owner, spoke to the other, the ghost of a former slave who had fought his way to freedom before 1865. The former slave-owner spoke first:

"You owe me!"

The former slave rejoined: "Owe you for what?"

"I paid for you!" the former slave-owner shouted. "Besides, who do you think arranged for your descendants to get some of that faith-based-initiative stuff today?"