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What was around or ended more recently than people think?
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~~Slavery~~ American chattel slavery.
This doesn't qualify. Slavery is still in use in the world. You'd have to use a modifier like American slavery or the enslavement of x, y, z, people.
You're completely right. I did the American thing that Americans are wont to do. Apologies.
Correct. People are enslaved all over the world, but there's a faction that loves to call prison labor "slavery" or "chattel slavery". It reflects a lack of understanding of what slavery is and devalues the people who actually do get bought and sold, even today.
Yeah... Maybe think a bit on who it is that's actually doing the devaluing here.
Maybe explain your point in English instead of dropping whatever vague hint you think you're dropping.
You're talking about prison convicts right? Actually lookup "chattel slavery", it means someone owns the person. No matter how you spin the words to make yourself right, convicts don't have owners. What they do is involuntary servitude not slavery. Calling it slavery devalues the experience of people who were forcibly kidnapped, shipped across the ocean, and sold in markets. And no, the race disparity in prison populations doesn't make prison labor slavery, anymore than being green makes grass a frog.
Now, now, just calm down there Charlie.
I said nothing about prison slavery. You're reading things into my post that are not there. The point I was trying to make is that the last the last living person who existed as property under what people think of as Slavery in the United States died in 1975. That's either not even or just barely two generations ago.
But the rest of your statement, yeah....idk. I'll just say that people are still being kidnapped, shipped and sold in this country. The mechanisms are different, the justifications are different. The underlying reasons? Not so much.