... advice is huge., however when the character "Lucy" went to Jefferson's memorial there was nobody around. The answer to her question, which she had to reproduce in class, caused uproar. This shows that the writers of this program see Lincoln as the ideal role model for American society today and possibly as their First President. The morality of slaves is not an issue. We all know that it is wrong. The truth though is that approximately twelve million2 slaves were exported from their homelands, against their wishes across the Atlantic. The slave trade started to die out in the 1830's after Britain abolished slavery and used the Royal Navy to police the high seas to enforce this decision. Unfortunately, the southern states of America already had a self sustaining slave population. Slave owners had no inhibitions about slaves reproducing as after just a few years they had another slave to either ...

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