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Slavery: still a thing (lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 months ago by balderdash9 to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The only reason corporations aren't doing chattel slavery in the U.S. right now is that they're legally barred from it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I just heard an NPR story about US Steel Corp using chattel slavery less than a hundred years ago. They worked people to death and buried them in unmarked graves.