imagine being a fucking white non-slave-owning yeoman farmer, loyal to a bunch of plantation owners who not only don't give a rat's ass about you, but are ready to send you to war to protect their monstrous, dying, untenable, inefficient way of life that relies on human trafficking, forced breeding (mass sexual assault), and unceasing corporal punishment. A war that not only you will lose, but will likely die losing. Meanwhile, they legally pay to keep their sons out of the war, and even hire surrogates in their stead.
We often talk about the "temporarily embarrassed billionaire." Imagine being a "temporarily embarrassed slave owner."
I never thought about the mass rape... JFC slavery has gotta be the most brutal practice ever. it's almost worse than just killing them, in fact it is. I hate the US and its self-righteousness, its fake Christianity, its fake democracy, its unfreedom, and most of all its apathy.
that was a very integral part of it because the transatlantic slave trade ended long before the domestic slave trade, meaning the slave population was only able to grow through reproduction. Marriages between slaves were not legally recognized, and couplings were often forced for breeding of new slaves. Then, when slaves families really did grow to bond and love each other they were threatened with family separation. This is to say nothing of plantation owners and overseers taking advantage of slaves.
imagine being a fucking white non-slave-owning yeoman farmer, loyal to a bunch of plantation owners who not only don't give a rat's ass about you, but are ready to send you to war to protect their monstrous, dying, untenable, inefficient way of life that relies on human trafficking, forced breeding (mass sexual assault), and unceasing corporal punishment. A war that not only you will lose, but will likely die losing. Meanwhile, they legally pay to keep their sons out of the war, and even hire surrogates in their stead.
We often talk about the "temporarily embarrassed billionaire." Imagine being a "temporarily embarrassed slave owner."
I never thought about the mass rape... JFC slavery has gotta be the most brutal practice ever. it's almost worse than just killing them, in fact it is. I hate the US and its self-righteousness, its fake Christianity, its fake democracy, its unfreedom, and most of all its apathy.
that was a very integral part of it because the transatlantic slave trade ended long before the domestic slave trade, meaning the slave population was only able to grow through reproduction. Marriages between slaves were not legally recognized, and couplings were often forced for breeding of new slaves. Then, when slaves families really did grow to bond and love each other they were threatened with family separation. This is to say nothing of plantation owners and overseers taking advantage of slaves.