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Oh well, ere committed now It was up to God to deliver us if I had made athe dock and those gathered upon it in shock, "I can't believe what I'riathered crowd of spectators along the docks was revealing

Irony couldn't co the current of events that must've occurred in this colony at some point in the past

"Maybe you should stay on board Matt" I said, as I continued to look at the perplexing makeup of the crowd

Matt shook his head stubbornly, "No, I' on this quest and noould seem that I ain, but Matt patted my shoulder and I remained silent

I watched as the white slaves parted away froive way to their black masters dressed in the finery of plantation owners It was an odd sight to behold and not a good one

Slavery had been wrong the first tis reversed wasn't ehts I had ever seen Instead of abolishing the yoke that people of round had been burdened with they had continued it on in a spirit of petty vengeance against their foreance could have initially been understandable, even excusable, but not now Not a hundred and fifty years later

The slaves I sahich bore evident signs of abuse had nothing in common with the sins of their plantation owner ancestors of the old South These white slaves were hopelessly caught up in a cycle of abuse and belittle deserved or justified by the enslave their ancestors had done worthy of such a judg, the reversal of roles in the sunken world was one of the strongest arguardless of skin color and ethnicity, because the same atrocities could be perpetrated equally ht against the overwhele to just turn the ship around and leave this island that bore evidence of man's fallen nature and petty hatreds of the past, but I couldn't What if the sixteenth president of the United States had decided not to push forward, not only with a costly Civil War, but also with an Eroup of people that weren't of his own skin color?