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You also have to remember what defined slavery back then. Anyone who worked without pay, including volunteers, indentured servants, and interns, qualified. Today, it just means black people who were forced to work against their will.
I’d be a slave working without pay if someone else had to figure out how to feed me, cloth me, give me a bed and a place to sleep indoors and medical care.
Plus allowed me to have a family that they also took care of.
Not all slave owners were cruel, many treated them as family themselves…and often granted freedom upon their death in their wills.
Not saying its right, obviously it is not…but working against ones will as a slave versus working against ones will as a corporate slave who has the freedom to quit but if we do we up homelessness and eventually death. That isn’t really much of a choice either. Yet one has the illusion of giving freedom.
xeaconsThen that meaning must have been lost by the 1860s, while slavery still existed, because the 13th amendment clearly states “slavery or involuntary servitude” to cover the difference.
J Short almost 9 years ago
So glad you are educating all of us.
clayusmcret Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Finally, a college teaching a marketable skill.
jbduncan almost 9 years ago
Janitors? Custodial associates today- but they get the same lousy pay.
Laynegg almost 9 years ago
So easy to judge the past with the present’s eyes. So easy to find fault and forget the right.
xeacons almost 9 years ago
You also have to remember what defined slavery back then. Anyone who worked without pay, including volunteers, indentured servants, and interns, qualified. Today, it just means black people who were forced to work against their will.
angelfiredragon almost 9 years ago
I’d be a slave working without pay if someone else had to figure out how to feed me, cloth me, give me a bed and a place to sleep indoors and medical care.
Plus allowed me to have a family that they also took care of.
Not all slave owners were cruel, many treated them as family themselves…and often granted freedom upon their death in their wills.
Not saying its right, obviously it is not…but working against ones will as a slave versus working against ones will as a corporate slave who has the freedom to quit but if we do we up homelessness and eventually death. That isn’t really much of a choice either. Yet one has the illusion of giving freedom.
hippogriff almost 9 years ago
xeaconsThen that meaning must have been lost by the 1860s, while slavery still existed, because the 13th amendment clearly states “slavery or involuntary servitude” to cover the difference.