One person may need (or want) more leisure another more work one more adventure another more security and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country indeed a state a city a church or a family healthy. 'One-size-fits-all ' and that size determined by the State has a name and that name is 'slavery.'
The breakdown of the black community in order to maintain slavery began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.
If Liberia has failed then it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
Although we have in theory abolished human slavery recognized women's rights and stopped child labor we continue to enslave other species who if we simply pay attention show quite clearly that they experience parental love pain and the desire for freedom just as we do.
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Had it not been for slavery the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me give me liberty or give me death!
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.