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What are you talking about. There ARE slaves in the United States right this minute. Illegal minors are forced to work in chicken processing plants for little wages that are then turned over to their cartel controllers posing as "placement agencies".
And the funny thing is that most blacks who harp about the slavery of the past will not take a stand against the slavery of today aka illegal aliens.
Plantation slaves suffered other personal violations. They could be moved from one property to another. An owner might, without notice, sell them to someone else, or they might be sold when a planter died or fell on hard times. Moreover, they might be moved simply because the owner had bequeathed them as part of his property to his children. Slaves found themselves removed, in an instant to a distant, unknown location, leaving behind family and loved ones, friends and community. This was one of the most bitterly resented features of plantation life right across all plantation colonies.
No less common and brutal was sexual exploitation. Slave women were always prey to the predatory sexual habits of their masters. Young and old, sisters, daughters and wives – all found themselves subject to sexual assault. The White men responsible for those assaults took little or no notice of the woman herself, her age, or her men folk, or family. Not surprisingly, it was a cause of deep hurt and humiliation. It was also often the cause and occasion for smouldering resentment or revenge if and when the opportunity arose – in whatever fashion seemed suitable.
Slaves were considered property and could be sold immediately and separated from their families. There nothing today to compare to that.
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I wish some of the people posting here would wake up as enslaved persons on a Southern plantation in about 1850. I'd love to read the comparisons between being beaten/raped/having your children sold off and having less of an ability to travel because of high fuel costs.
Southern boarder towns u.s.a. --- ? Also, have you looked into slavery, it's the same now (children are sold off) as it was then. The only difference is the government cannot tax people as property. That and it's greater in population today, than at any other time in the history or ancient or modern man.
The black market where the slave trade continues fuels (all governments) the global economy all the while we are told, slavery ended in 1865.
In 1850 is you were a woman without a male escort, well then you were ripe for the picking ... and the only difference between today and yesterday, is the feeling of being safe. No one is actually any safer. Humans are no less barbaric today, than they were then, we just have better toys, that's all. The men beat and raped their women, beat their children and kicked the dog and that was on a good day. And men today do what?
Freedom of movement as citizens ... ? I've always said the government(s) figured it out. Why enslave only one group of people when as a government we can enslave them all? Its system is baked right in to the country's laws. The land people freely walk on, does not nor will it ever belong to an individual and a 'good citizen' always pay their taxes.
Plantation slaves suffered other personal violations. They could be moved from one property to another. An owner might, without notice, sell them to someone else, or they might be sold when a planter died or fell on hard times. Moreover, they might be moved simply because the owner had bequeathed them as part of his property to his children. Slaves found themselves removed, in an instant to a distant, unknown location, leaving behind family and loved ones, friends and community. This was one of the most bitterly resented features of plantation life right across all plantation colonies.
No less common and brutal was sexual exploitation. Slave women were always prey to the predatory sexual habits of their masters. Young and old, sisters, daughters and wives – all found themselves subject to sexual assault. The White men responsible for those assaults took little or no notice of the woman herself, her age, or her men folk, or family. Not surprisingly, it was a cause of deep hurt and humiliation. It was also often the cause and occasion for smouldering resentment or revenge if and when the opportunity arose – in whatever fashion seemed suitable.
Slaves were considered property and could be sold immediately and separated from their families. There nothing today to compare to that.
There are 40 million humans today who can relate and no one is coming to free them.
Sorry, but I'm not entertaining your false, revisionist history that enslaving people somehow did them a good turn. You can discuss that bull#!$% with someone willing to indulge lies, but that someone is not me.
Yeah, Marlow., people centuries ago had only 2 options according to you. There weren't others. Wars, diseases and extreme poverty didn't exist. Slaves were living the dream and were rich before they got captured to be slaves. Why do you speak for all dead people?
Not everybody in life has a good turn what lives throws at them, just levels of cr@p. So go speak to only people with your moral outrage about the past.
"What would slavery in the US look like today? " -- minimum wage
So true in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas where min. wage is only $7.25. Taco Bueno tries to run with only two or three people because it's hard to find people who will slave for around min. wage.
Massive student loan debt to pay off that limits your ability to do other things like buy a house and have kids?
Much higher prices on every single thing you buy?
Less ability to travel due to high cost of energy/oil/gasoline?
Massive spikes in the cost of housing because of bad policy? Running up demand of housing by importing millions of people? Artificially manipulating interest rates to be low so demand for purchases increase? Pumping money into the system that causes the stock market to skyrocket and rich get richer?
Having your kid shipped off to fight a war that could have been prevented? Why is Russia going to invade Ukraine NOW instead say, in 2017?
Being told what you are allowed to say and not allowed to say?
Remember when we always said if you spend too much, your kids will pay the price?
Are we experiencing modern day slavery?
No, we most certainly are not. Therefore, is your thread title is utterly absurd. It should have been, "Life Under Biden".
How many US citizens and non citizens are slaves to the Democratic Party? Welfare, free or reduced housing, WIC, free phones, food stamps, healthcare and many others.
Yeah, Marlow., people centuries ago had only 2 options according to you. There weren't others. Wars, diseases and extreme poverty didn't exist. Slaves were living the dream and were rich before they got captured to be slaves. Why do you speak for all dead people?
Not everybody in life has a good turn what lives throws at them, just levels of cr@p. So go speak to only people with your moral outrage about the past.
There are 40 million humans today who can relate and no one is coming to free them.
That doesn't make equating having to pay taxes and reducing travel with slavery an accurate comparison.
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