Check your local listings for this PBS documentry. It's airing now. This documentry is based on a book called Slavery By Another Name. In an interview the author said that slavery in the U.S didn't actually end until this pracitice of forced labor was ended around 1942. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSOwAJAn6as"]SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME | Preview | PBS - YouTube
In my opnion slavery is very real in the US still today, there are always loopholes and ways around it for those wicked enough to pursue it.
I just finished watching the program. There were two methods of re-enslaving Blacks. One was through convict leasing and the other through peonage. Convict leasing involved having prison inmates being rented from state gov'ts to companies who used them as labor. The thing with this is that many of these inmates were placed in prison on the smallest charges like not being able to prove they had a job which caused them to be charged with vagrancy. Then with peonage this is where a person had to perform labor because they were in debt to a business or family. The business or family would find ways to keep the person in debt to them making it harder for that person to work off their debt. The brutality involved in maintaining people as laborers in these systems was worst than slavery they point out because you could easily replace an injured or dead inmate with other inmates.
Here's the interview with the author the documentry is based on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd8YoRp9WEE"]'Slavery by Another Name' Relays the Forgotten Stories of Post-Civil War Slavery - YouTube
Good post! Yes slavery is alive and well today and everyone who has paid for their homes and did not retire on a million will soon find out that they are peons to the state through taxes on EVERYTHING. When mom and dad are 80 and they have to sell their home to pay property taxes to the state mostly for services tendered at the end of a barrel of a gun and threat of losing their property if they do not pay! EVEN IF they do not use any of the services the cities and counties provide. Its FORCED services which create a DEBT at the end of a barrel of a state gun, and they use your property as a security SO YOU CANNOT OPT OUT and if you take them to court they presume you consented simply because you are here! Our RICO court system is shocking to say the least. that said slavery never ended and never will until people figure out how to get out from under the feudal statism this country was founded upon .
yep! same as it is yet today! and who invests in these CORPORATE OWNED prisons? You got it Judges and Attorneys! They get around the constitutions by making these corporations get this: "QUASI-corporations" and empower them with "some" governmental powers! That way they can make money and score mounds of profits and with the additional power of a government IMMUNITIES! again do we hear RICO? Whats that called again? Hmmm Its all about the corrupt courts! They are who is really running the country by very pointed and specific few pivotal rulings that have enslaved EVERYONE and it is presumed that wherever there is an injury there is a remedy, NOT FOR A SECOND! No one and I do mean no one tells the story better than george! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q There is no remedy! They took care of that!
Close to my hometown,there was a farmer that would take a bus down to Alabama or Missisippi and bring a bunch of extremely poor black folks to work his land in central California. Of course they had little cabins next to their own house for them to stay in to keep them close and under control. The farmer would buy groceries and then re-sell them to the blacks at inflated prices. Also charged them rent for the shit cabins they were in! They never were able to get out of debt. I graduated with one of the farmers sons and he told me how good the sex was with some of the girls. Bragging,basically. He was/is a motherfucker. The only time I was ever at their house was when he was having a party,so I showed up. I hated those people,so I stole almost everything in their huge freezer and pissed on the rest. That's the only time I ever stole anything and I still don't feel bad about it. Pimps are slavers and sex slavery is still very big today.
