The Convict Leasing Forced Labor System

https://lemmy.ml/post/17792504

The Convict Leasing Forced Labor System - Lemmy

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/11237867 [https://slrpnk.net/post/11237867]

I mean, yes. The constitution explicitly carves out one exception to the “no slavery” rule. People who proudly proclaim America was the “first country to abolish slavery” don’t even realize America didn’t abolish slavery. So even if they were right, they’d still be wrong.
Didn’t England do it first?

A number of other countries did it first.

en.wikipedia.org/…/Timeline_of_abolition_of_slave…

Timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom - Wikipedia