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submitted 8 months ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's slavery with extra steps, you make up laws that allow you to imprison a particular demographic and then you use that demographic as slave labor.

[–] clever_banana@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I mean when slavery in the US was going to be ended they explicitly said that slavery could continue legally in prisons