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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 58 points 9 months ago (7 children)

I didn't realise slavery continued in the US until so recently, mid 1800s? Yikes.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 144 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Chattel slavery. Penal Slavery is still legal and targets mostly racial minorities.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's super important to really understand how fucked penal slavery and convict leasing is. When you think of American slavery you think of people working in a field and that it stopped with the civil war. It absolutely didn't. They forced prisoners to work the fields after that.

[–] katharta@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

California of all states voting to keep prison slavery legal in 2024 is how I know deep down inside we are truly well good and fucked.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

probably need all those prisons to work for next to none to fight fires, or do govt work that nobody wants to work.

[–] PDFuego@lemmy.world 56 points 9 months ago

They still have it, it's just called prison labour now.

[–] Apepollo11@lemmy.world 50 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Even more shockingly, Mississippi only officially ratified the amendment to abolish slavery in... 1995.

And only officially submitted the paperwork concerning said ratification to the US Archives in... 2013.

No rush, guys. No rush.

[–] ODGreen@slrpnk.net 21 points 9 months ago

It's still around.

The amendment to USA's constitution that "banned" slavery did so EXCEPT as punishment for a crime.

USA also has astoundingly high incarceration rates per capita. Coincidence?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

More like mid-1900s.

And yes, that's talking about the the last chattal slave not being freed until 1942, not the same points others are making about prison slavery.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

ITS STILL here, at least in very wasp areas, especially in country/golf clubs they still have hordes of African immigrants as "servers", one english prof told me one time he dated a woman who im guessing is wealthy because they were eating at this country club, and all the severs there were African immigrants/migrants. and yes the people there that were in "high society were all white"

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 9 months ago

I understand what you are trying to say but isn't it downplaying slavery (especially the racist slavery in this case) when equating it to seemingly racist hiring practices of country clubs? I would agree with you that it seems to be a romanization of the racist slavery. But slavery and a job is very different. The racism might be the same at its core but working in a job and working in slavery is very very different.

I am not defending the clubs. I just think slavery is a word that shouldn't be deluded as it should be understood as the horror that it is.

If you think I am wrong, please let me know. Maybe my take is stupid.