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In reply to the discussion: The South's Shocking Hidden History: Thousands of Blacks Forced Into Slavery Until WW2 [View all]drm604
(16,230 posts)69. I remember seeing a TV show decades ago, I think in the 1960s.
I think the show was 60 minutes. I don't remember the details but they showed descendants of slaves, still living in the same slave quarters as their ancestors, and working the same fields. I don't recall if they received any pay, but if they did, it was very little. Apparently they couldn't leave (or at least thought they couldn't), either because they were debt slaves, or they were simply kept cowed and ignorant. The tone of the story was that they were modern day slaves and very little had changed for them (other than the fact that they couldn't be sold like animals and weren't legally considered to be property). This was after WWII.
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The South's Shocking Hidden History: Thousands of Blacks Forced Into Slavery Until WW2 [View all]
xchrom
Jan 2013
OP
No, travel down to the Delta and observe the living conditions and "indentured" blacks
Tutonic
Jan 2013
#63
It doesn't matter. They were robbed of their place in the sun, that they should have had.
freshwest
Jan 2013
#39
Yeah, they want to live off what they stole from others - their freedom, their labor, their lives.
freshwest
Jan 2013
#40
Still happening... disproportionate sentencing for black folks and prison labor...
Luminous Animal
Jan 2013
#53
The south is different as any internal colony is different. Other internal colonies include:
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#61
If only the 14 year old black kid had been smoking a joint...many here would *applaud* his
Romulox
Jan 2013
#25
if the kid was 17 and black and had Skittles, some here would defend his killing
CreekDog
Jan 2013
#27
I lived in the South in the 50's and 60's and nothing would surprise surprise me about what happened
demosincebirth
Jan 2013
#26