and a rhetorical ethic created the systems that followed...

an "ideal" can be expressed as a rhetorical ethic, but truth is truth, enslavement DID exist in a land that touted "ALL men are created equal."

as the "ideals" of freedom and equality drove the "revolutionary war", so those same ideals will bring us even more detrement as time continues to "evolve" into truth and the need for this culture to maintain control...