We can end overpopulation slavery.

Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates Jr. understandably found his visit with the modern King of Dahomey, “unsettling.” After all, a predecessor of that emperor had sold his ancestral family through the gates of no return. Can anything be more important, today?

Many North Americans believe that the Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery for all time.

Of course, the Emancipation Proclamation shouted the admirable goal of a young democracy to end domination of one man by another. Thank-you, Abraham Lincoln, among so many others.

But laws written in the wake of that great Proclamation can last only while underpopulation affluence survives. As Ben Franklin wrote in the 1750’s once human numbers out-race opportunities, wages collapse. Historic violence reminds that humans don’t respond well to continuous depravation.

Buzzie might add, “The longer Humies fear other Humies, the better for us buzzards!”