Opinion
No Slavery Parallel
By Eric Dahlberg | March 1, 2001To the Editor: I am writing this in response to the article written by Leah Threatte '01, that appeared on Wednesday, February 28, 2001: The auction about which Ms. Threatte has complained was a community-service activity to raise funds for Upper Valley charities, as she herself states. From the sounds of it, this event had nothing to do with the issue of slavery or race, except insofar as it was called an "auction." While I agree with Ms. Threatte that slavery was a terrible chapter in American history, I fail to see the connection she is making between a community service event intended to benefit the poor with the African slave trade.