Speaking of enslavement, that's kinda how the government had to step in and take corrective action:  Our treatment of minorities.  Because we based our society on separation and inequality, a government of the people, acting in the name of all people, had to take corrective actions and mandate that people be treated equally.  

It's funny that many of the same forces, namely that Ol' Time Religion, are again acting to assert their "rights" to a society based on separation and inequality---One would almost think that these two themes are really the basis of their religion, and not the teaching of Christ.