I found this article interesting...

[Ivana-St]

Thanks to all of you for responding! I'm glad we think the some on this. I came upon this one and just couldn't help but share it with you...I've seen that people put on different topics here, not necessarily related to music. Sadly, modern contemporary slavery is still much at work in our own time: once I thought that the human race would improve, learn from the past, but I was wrong, things seem to be getting worse and worse. Yesterday my friend phoned and said he was fed up doing the job for two, being paid for one, working the long hours day after day... when they sent him another pile of papers to go through, he stood up and went to his boss, telling him he was going to quit, like in a movie scene...I think there is a parallel with the guy from the past; black or white or any other colour of the skin, slavery is still here just wearing a different coat...I will never understand this need for power over the other fellow humans, never...

[kate13]

Originally Posted by Ivana-St

Well, I'm sure he didn't get any money back. Yes, it seems unbelievable, but people back then had gone through much worse. This man was so proud and took his chance to tell his former master what he thought of him; he may have been illiterat, but he certainly was not stupid, and I admire him for his gesture. I hope he found some peace for the rest of his life.
Last week I watched ''The Help'' in the cinema and this article reminded me a lot of the movie...

What's unbelievable, The Colonel attitude.

Jourdon who served him for 32 years without pay, who's also been shot at twice by the colonel, Got his free papers in 1864, yet the Colonel still expects him to go back the plantation as he can do better for Jourdon that anyone else......The colonel defo living in the past, wanting something for nothing, But people with money think they can be lord and master over everyone, who are the poor disadvantaged peeps to tell them different, whats the saying don't be joe soap ? anyways i admire Jourdon he's got balls to stand up to the colonel.

Everything has a reason and a meaning, strange how this letters surfaced in 2012 take out slavery, nothing really changed ?
I think we've all met a colonel ?

[Tango]

Very interesting read, but I must ask did he ever get his reply?

[JB40]

Just as an interesting thought.

There is a theory that, rather than being a noble cause (plenty of important White people have made a noble reputation from the fight to end slavery), the truth is that, because there was about to be an influx of poor White Europeans to America, these people needed paying jobs. With slavery around, the rich didn,t have to pay any more than food and lodgings. So they banned slavery so that White people could get jobs.

[Fromtheislandinthesun]

we having a issues in the eastern caribbean by a great influx of chinese throughout the caribbean, there is infact alot of discus of if we arent heads up, caribbean society could soon be overwhelmed by them, as they control alot of the business sector in some islands

The folks on St.Lucia have been advocating that issue as its of great concern..
funny how history could repeat itself if we arent guarded.

[Ivana-St]

Originally Posted by JB40

Just as an interesting thought.

There is a theory that, rather than being a noble cause (plenty of important White people have made a noble reputation from the fight to end slavery), the truth is that, because there was about to be an influx of poor White Europeans to America, these people needed paying jobs. With slavery around, the rich didn,t have to pay any more than food and lodgings. So they banned slavery so that White people could get jobs.

It may well be true, it seems logical; I'm not a history expert, far from it, but such things are very interesting to explore. And we know that we are often told an official truth, not a real one....
Several days ago, in our newspapers, I read a review of '' A People's History of the United States:1492-Present'' by the American historian Howard Zinn, it's due to be issued in Croatia soon; and he seems to be dealing with such hidden, untold stories from the US past; I'll take a look...the book was published in 2003, it's probably common knowledge among those interested. if you want to take a look, there's a link:

http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Histor.../dp/0060528370