Jack of Harts

Everybody knows the Africans were once used as slave labor in the cotton fields. Their lobby does not let anyone forget it. But a little known secret is that the Chinese maintained slave trading markets long after the American Civil War officially ended the practice of Slavery. They were kept apart from the Americans, and many never learned English at all. They never found out that Slavery was illegal here. Most never ran because they did not think they could. Some few did, and it was they who helped us fight the Chinese markets, but we never fully ended them. The lack of a common language kept us divided and forever hampered our efforts to end that slave trade.