January 1, 1863

When did slavery start?  I don't know: it was before Earth.  When it was rocks, plants, tiny animals and minerals we had slavery.  We had judgement.  We had prejudice.  We had categorizing over individuality, sometimes. 

To my mind.

I know when slavery ended in the United States of States of America.   

January 1, 1863 One hundred fifty-nine years ago we had the Emancipation Proclamation deeming slavery illegal with U.S.

Slavery has been a financial convention, using bodies for payment and trade.  In the early Americas we exchanged ownership for goods, goods that didn't did not last as long as the people who were traded in the economy of this wealth.  

Also, it is possible that we were only afforded the diversity we have today because of the actions and agreements of our collective past.  

Yesterday I found, in Dr. Jordan B. Peterson's book, 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos, page 14,

"...It's not even a human creation; not in the most profound sense.  It is instead a near-eternal aspect of the environment, and much of what is blamed on these more ephemeral manifestations is a consequence of its unchanging existence.  We (the sovereign we, the we that has been around since the beginning of life) have lived in a dominance hierarchy for a long, long time.  We were struggling for position before we had skin, or hands, or lungs, or bones.  There is little more natural than culture.  Dominance hierarchies are older than trees.

Human trafficking is a similar problem, which must be abolished Worldwide, and animal trafficking, too.

Won't it be nicer when, even though we had those things, they no longer exist.

Let us make trade and culture more fair.