[Ost-news] The tar sands and slavery

[Oil Sands Truth: Shut down the Tar Sands - social and environmental impacts of tar sands heavy oil projects across North America]

"The system of slavery is like holding a wolf by its ears: you don't like  
it, but you don't dare let go."  
- Thomas Jefferson

The oil sands and slavery

By Frederick Douglass*

It was once the case that slaves were the most valuable asset in America. As the horrors of slavery began to be documented and a concern that this was a horrible practice spread, the justifications for continued slavery sound eerily familiar to the justifications for the continuation and massive expansion of the oil sands.

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    [1]: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-and-slavery

URL: http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-and-slavery