... to do their work. Even in Africa, royal kings used slaves to build and protect their empires. However, this early slavery was nothing like the slavery which developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries mainly due to the new arena "America and their need for laborers. The issue of slavery is complex. Inherent in these issues are core principles of ... on which the American constitution is based. American slavery developed into something called racism which can be still felt in the 21st century. Slavery is an ancient practice, integral to empires from the Egyptians to the Aztecs....

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