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This documentry is based on a book called Slavery By Another Name. In an interview the author said that slavery in the U.S didn't actually end until this pracitice of forced labor was ended around 1942.
Check your local listings for this PBS documentry. It's airing now.
This documentry is based on a book called Slavery By Another Name. In an interview the author said that slavery in the U.S didn't actually end until this pracitice of forced labor was ended around 1942.
Interesting show. It was interesting that the 13th amendment actually also outlawed indentured servants. Another thing I've never heard before.
It is interesting that they replaced slavery with a combination of serfdom and captive forced work, much closer to what slavery had been in other places where slaves were usually criminals or prisoners of war, and a form on indentrue (which had been banned too of course).
I wonder if there had been numerous immigrants ready and willing to work for nothing if they'd have gone the route the northern businesses did to secure workers.
The difference in all these except the tenant farmer/serf was that now the family did not figure into the equation and ONLY those who could work had to be dealt with, saving even more.
The trailer ends with the narrator saying that maybe now, since this is being exposed, that the victims will get some justice. Yeah.....right!. She does not understand how America plays the game of dealing with its wrongs. America waits until all the victims are dead before they really aknowlege wrongs. That way they can then argue that its too late to do anything because all the direct victims are dead. That is why the period of Jim Crow is never really given respect for the oppression is visited upon black people. The only thing people now talk about in regards to black oppression is slavery and that is because all the slaves are now dead. There might be millions alive whose lives and opportunity was stunted by the Jim Crow era. However, to aknowledge that now would likely mean some sort of restitution.
And one wonders why nearly half of the prison population in the US is black, TODAY, while only 13% of the population is black. This stuff has been going on for a long time folks.
The trailer ends with the narrator saying that maybe now, since this is being exposed, that the victims will get some justice. Yeah.....right!. She does not understand how America plays the game of dealing with its wrongs. America waits until all the victims are dead before they really aknowlege wrongs. That way they can then argue that its too late to do anything because all the direct victims are dead. That is why the period of Jim Crow is never really given respect for the oppression is visited upon black people. The only thing people now talk about in regards to black oppression is slavery and that is because all the slaves are now dead. There might be millions alive whose lives and opportunity was stunted by the Jim Crow era. However, to aknowledge that now would likely mean some sort of restitution.
And one wonders why nearly half of the prison population in the US is black, TODAY, while only 13% of the population is black. This stuff has been going on for a long time folks.
feh. Slavery continues. Haitian housemaids in Miami, agricultural worker "camps". There are other ways that people are enslaved where they don't even know it.
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This is a long video but it shows how the elimination of blacks,
poor people, undesirable, unemployed, mentally ill, etc.
is still going on today in The U.S.A.
feh. Slavery continues. Haitian housemaids in Miami, agricultural worker "camps". There are other ways that people are enslaved where they don't even know it.
Using others seems to be engrained in the human psyche. Someone will always fill the bottom layer and be used as needed. Someone will always be there to use them.
The improvement is measured in the degree to which it is done and how openly accepting socieity is of it. As the credits were running, and they showed the child captives, I wondered how many of the companies buy something from third world countries where child labor and out and out slavery are still openly practiced.
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. Yeah.....right!. She does not understand how America plays the game of dealing with its wrongs. America waits until all the victims are dead before they really aknowlege wrongs. That way they can then argue that its too late to do anything because all the direct victims are dead. That is why the period of Jim Crow is never really given respect for the oppression is visited upon black people. The only thing people now talk about in regards to black oppression is slavery and that is because all the slaves are now dead. There might be millions alive whose lives and opportunity was stunted by the Jim Crow era. However, to aknowledge that now would likely mean some sort of restitution. 
