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[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago

Every slaveowner beats him out so I doubt he even makes the top 10.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

I mean, the argument could be made that some future Presidents didn't own slaves, but created the conditions to make a lot more slaveowners prosper elsewhere. Fuck, I'm gonna stop thinking on this one.

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

There's also definitely an argument that Trump would own slaves if it were still legal (Biden falls under this category too).

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

These guys almost certainly have investments in private prisons, I have no doubt about that. While it's not quite the same as outright owning a person, they own shares in companies that preside over and profit from ongoing slavery to this day. Our modern financial system has done a bang up job of obfuscating slavery by making it too abstract for most people to notice, but today's policing and prison institutions are direct descendants of yesterday's escaped slave patrols and plantations.

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