It was a real thing, according to encyclopedia.com about 20 percent of slaves in South Carolina were being rented every year by 1800 and the process was outlawed in 1845 based on a fear that slaves on smaller farms would get used to the relative freedom they had there. The average elsewhere was about 5%, so it was never more than a niche practice for a certain class of white landowner that couldn't afford to buy a slave but had enough land to benefit from hiring one temporarily.
None of this in any way detracts from how horrible an institution slavery was. (I don't feel like I need to say that on this site, but just in case)
I hit my limit on feeling horror about the physical abuses of slavery a long time ago, like after you hear how they transported slaves to the Americas in the first place every other horror is just like “yeah sounds about right”
Every time now I feel a new horror about slavery it’s because I hear something about how mundane it was. Like at the American history museum in DC (which is gross) there was a sign from a slave auction and it just proudly proclaimed something along the lines of “Our slaves never run away!” And the idea that you could just say that, with no reflection, is horrifying.
It was a real thing, according to encyclopedia.com about 20 percent of slaves in South Carolina were being rented every year by 1800 and the process was outlawed in 1845 based on a fear that slaves on smaller farms would get used to the relative freedom they had there. The average elsewhere was about 5%, so it was never more than a niche practice for a certain class of white landowner that couldn't afford to buy a slave but had enough land to benefit from hiring one temporarily.
None of this in any way detracts from how horrible an institution slavery was. (I don't feel like I need to say that on this site, but just in case)
I hit my limit on feeling horror about the physical abuses of slavery a long time ago, like after you hear how they transported slaves to the Americas in the first place every other horror is just like “yeah sounds about right”
Every time now I feel a new horror about slavery it’s because I hear something about how mundane it was. Like at the American history museum in DC (which is gross) there was a sign from a slave auction and it just proudly proclaimed something along the lines of “Our slaves never run away!” And the idea that you could just say that, with no reflection, is horrifying.
I get that with Nazi Germany
Don't look into how the state of California recruits firefighters.
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