Uncle Dave is right. Slavery still exists. National Geographic ran a good article on the current slave trade not too long ago. Imagine the life of a young child chained to the floor making a rug that you or I get to walk on.

By the way - my understanding is that my great-grandmother - a native American - was sold before she entered the United States. Otherwise I might have ended up a Canadian! So you don't have to be black to be the decendents of slaves.