Slavery and putting those less unfortunate in bondage is probably the most oppressive quality of human nature. Slavery has been in existence since the beginning of man and remains a shameful part of our country's history. Ever since we first landed on this continent almost four hundred years ago we have been enslaving cultures that we have been able to take advantage of. In the later part of our country's history we enslaved hundreds if not thousands of African Americans, not including the Indians which would probably go into the millions of the ones that we did not kill. As a result of slavery we have missed out on many great minds that will never be known. An example of one of the great minds that we were fortunate to experience right out of slavery was Booker T. Washington. In his autobiography "Up From Slavery" Booker goes into...