One of earliest photographs of slavery in America, perhaps 1850, now in Nelson-Atkins Museum ...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

One of earliest photographs of slavery in America, perhaps 1850, now in Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City:

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A California man was busted for large scale agricultural slavery in the 90s. The 1990s.

They gave Ed Ives three years in jail for having hundreds of slaves.

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[malaise]

1. This one is more recent

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/23/texas-couple-who-enslaved-young-girl-sentenced-years-prison-then-deportation/

A Jamaican couple was also enslaved in the 1990s. They escaped and it was big news

[mopinko]

2. i believe there was a saudi family in ny just last year.

[malaise]

3. You also find slavery

among the elites from the Philippines and India. There was a case in California involving a a notorious wealthy family from India.

These days it is not just whites who enslave people in developed countries

[mopinko]

4. yeah, that too. saw that.

and if you arent rich enough for slaves, there's always your mother in law.
visited a home there and granny slept on the floor in the hallway.

[Solly Mack]

5. "Forced labor" still goes on in America.

Well, it's called "forced labor" but that's just another name for slavery.

Human trafficking is what the slave traders did - the kidnapping, buying and selling of humans for "forced labor". You know, slavery.

I don't see the need to use other language to describe what people are still doing simply because it's done in secret or because our laws and protections are insufficient to address the problem. Or because the U.S. made slavery illegal, so it can't possibly be still going on in America.

Even after slavery was abolished, white folks in the South still managed to keep black people in a form of slavery through Black Codes and Jim Crow - denying them property ownership, the vote, freedom of movement, terrorizing black people, and the list goes on. It was apartheid and apartheid creates a Master/Slave dynamic especially when black people are denied rights, equal education, and forced to live in poverty, dependent on white people for jobs and their very lives.

Victims of "forced labor" are abused physically and sexually, threatened into obedience, have their every move watched, not allowed to do anything without the permission of their "employers". Too afraid to escape. Too afraid to find help.

The poor from other countries, undocumented immigrants, children, those who don't speak English, desperate people from all over the world - all preyed upon.



Prisons are also bad. Yeah, that 10 cents a hour really changes things. Not.

So, they committed a crime, even a heinous crime - does that mean they can now be exploited as cheap laborers for corporations? That fact that slavery as punishment is still enshrined in law is not something to feel good about. Slavery is still slavery regardless of how it comes about.

8 Major Companies that use prison labor


Over 4,100 corporations profit from mass incarceration in the United States

Cheap prison labor is a powerful labor market incentive against criminal justice reform.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Prison labor is slave labor.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Background on the photo: https://www.flatlandkc.org/arts-culture/nelson-atkins-obtains-extraordinari

https://www.flatlandkc.org/arts-culture/nelson-atkins-obtains-extraordinarily-rare-image-of-slaves-working-on-a-plantation/

For nerds: yes, it's a daguerreotype.