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My dad was a white slave, Kentucky Republican tells NAACP (www.motherjones.com)

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My dad was a white slave, Kentucky Republican tells NAACP

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[-] liquidparasyte@pawb.social 34 points 9 months ago

There's wage slavery, there's debtor's prison, there's sharecropping, and then there's chattel slavery.

When 'slavery' is brought up in American politics we almost exclusively mean the latter.

Absolute clown 🤡

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

The situation she was referring to was indentured servitude.

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