America fought its bloodiest war mainly over the issue of slavery. It took the deaths of over half a million citizens to abolish the heinous institution. This figure does not account for the untold numbers of black lives devastated by slavery—brutal corporal punishments, the centuries of strenuous physical labor without remuneration, and, significantly for this […]
Tag: holidays
So, here we are in the holiday season. Thanksgiving is a few weeks behind us and we now find ourselves looking forward to the biggest (at least in my book) holiday of them all, Christmas. The holiday hype of sales, sports on TV, food and family time surrounds us. We expend much of our […]