As I listened to some of last night’s fireside chat, I couldn’t help but think of how Africans were treated so cruelly. The dehumanization you talk about was exactly how their shipment from Africa to other parts of the world shackled and in quarters similar to those of cattle, living in their own feces and given just enough sustenance to keep enough of the “goods” from perishing was justified.
Economics motivated the slavery operation and was then justified by “science” that said things about Africans similar to what Hitler and his regime said about Jews.
The cruelty of man truly knows no bounds 
Allison
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That is so true, Allison. Slavery has always been around, but the English/American form of it was horrific. And according to the angel who stood at the foot of my father’s bed one night, God was very displeased. The angel gave a warning to my father to the people in this country, “from the president to the peasant”, saying that “the white man stole the black man from the land God had given him.”
It hurts my heart to think of black mothers forcibly separated from their little ones, and the many other ungodly cruelties those slaves suffered. But God saw each one, and we can be assured that “a book of remembrance was written” for them all. Because of God’s perfect justice, nobody “gets by” with any evil deed. And thankfully, because of that same justice, every good deed will also have a reward.
Pastor John