The finding aligns with the harrowing accounts of second-century AD writer Apuleius, whose Metamorphoses IX 11-13 describes the backbreaking labour endured by men, women, and animals in ancient mills and bakeries.
I like how one of the five places that has a higher per capita rate than the US (El Salvador, Cuba, Rwanda, Turkmenistan, American Samoa) is an American territory.
I know. But that still doesn’t compare to actual slavery. You can’t sell people or subject them to summary execution (yet).
It’s important to acknowledge how much better than the past today is. Because that shows us how much better than today the future can be if we don’t fuck it up.
Its explicitly allowed in the US if you’re a prisoner, by the constitution. We have literal bakery-prisons to this day :) isn’t it great
Then take a look at comparative incarceration rates around the world, and ask yourself who these numbers are made up by.
It’s pretty clear who is picking the cotton even today.
I like how one of the five places that has a higher per capita rate than the US (El Salvador, Cuba, Rwanda, Turkmenistan, American Samoa) is an American territory.
I know. But that still doesn’t compare to actual slavery. You can’t sell people or subject them to summary execution (yet). It’s important to acknowledge how much better than the past today is. Because that shows us how much better than today the future can be if we don’t fuck it up.