It is a beautiful, tragic irony that the most powerful symbol against slavery might be that of the stone slave, themselves eternally imprisoned in time and matter. There is something in this: the symbol creates and represents what it detests; minds (and cultures) create their own unwitting blind-spots in this way.
Slavery is of course alive and well in our world and it is a shame upon us all that this is still a fact.
Daedelus Kite 