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.
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.
SlaveryAmerican 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.
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.