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Formally, it wasn't slavery. Effectively, it was.
I'm seeing chains on necks, looks like slavery to me. Even if they were prisoners, that is inhumane.
Fucking greasy to think it's so close to recent history.
The current US prison system is effectively legalised slavery, and is a big reason why US system doesn't do reform and incentives recedivism
Still literally in the US constitution. 13th:
And it only took the bloodiest civil war in history, a war we're still paying the price for not going the extra mile and abolishing the southern states and replacing them with Union members.
Such is the price to end slavery in America and advance the worldwide abolitionist movement.
And I wish federal occupation had lasted significantly longer, enough to replace the older generation with a enlightened, Yankee way of thinking and attitude. That or go the route of Jacob Smith and just shoot about everyone above the age of ten and sell all the land for cheap.
Mate, its more recent than you think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Modern_chain_gang.jpg
doesn't count if you don't think those wearing chains are people.
What gets me is that yeah that's their excuse, but if someone treated, say, an orangutan or a baboon like this I'd think that was pretty fucked up too. We were so gross. We still are (dog fighting, circus elephants etc) but the cruelty that we're capable of without what is essentially moral peer pressure, is chilling to think about. Even today we fight tooth and nail against moral progress and treating everyone with respect.
It was still happening in the 1970’s.