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Why slavery returns again and again, despite Emancipation Proclamations, constitutional amendments, even after great advances during prosperous Edenic times to societies who will not do sustainability? Want a better future?

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Overpopulation excess: Flamingo Genie from an ancient lamp asks the King of Dahomey, “Why the long face?” The king responds, “Too many people! We need “their” land. We take prisoners. Why kill POWs when selling ‘em as slaves gets us cannons against other overpopulating empires? I want to protect our people… FLAMINGO GENIE! WE NEED A REDO TO AVOID OVERPOPULATION HELL!”

Dahomey’s King explains how too many people motivates and sparks slavery. Worried leaders strive to take lands and resources of others. POWs are sold as slaves who would otherwise be killed.

Overpopulation enables the return of slavery!

Vision-building plate of slaves dragging an Egyptian petroglyph labelled Exodus 1:9-15. One comments to another, "Babies born faster than life anywhere, threatens quality of life everywhere." Another responds, "Thanks mom and dad."

Bibles report overpopulation as Egyptian emperors’ motive for marginalizing and enslaving Jews.

Overpopulation starts slavery. Four slave era empires' signs along the African slave coast advertise POW's for sale. A giant arrow points into the the Atlantic labelled, “About 85% of 15 million came to slavery or death from overpopulation-empire in this way…” Footnotes Henry Louis Gates Youtube video, “Nobody Watches PBS: The Slave Kingdoms Edition” at approx.. 17-18 min.

Competing African empires built global slave trades from selling enemy POWs for European weapons. Why? As humans outnumbered life support leaders felt pressure to protect against (& steal from) nearby hungry neighbors troubled by the same problem.

Planet earth spinning in space has a giant sign sticking up out of the North Pole reading, “END SLAVERY! No babies conceived faster than good jobs!”

WE COULD MAINTAIN CIVIL RIGHTS FOREVER, but…

An old-fashioned medicine bottle floats in outer space. Contents spill over our home-planet earth. The bottle is marked, “Overpopulation, the Original Civil Rights Remover.” Footnotes reference chapter 3 titled, “Freedom or slavery, how overpopulation decides” in the book, A Letter to Dear Children: On Our Overpopulation-violence Connection, among others.

Overpopulation always has been the original destroyer of civil rights…

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