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Slavery: still a thing (lemmy.zip)

submitted 9 months ago by balderdash9@lemmy.zip to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 9 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.

[–] Haagel@lemmings.world 6 points 9 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.