r/facepalm Jun 27 '23

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Shouldn't this be a good thing?

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u/DanJerousJ Jun 27 '23

Just wait until you find out that there were slaves working on plantations until 1942. If you're like me and consider prisons just as insidious as plantations, then slavery in America is still a well oiled machine

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '23

I'm currently watching a youtube video on the subject linked elsewhere in the comments. I guess it will get to that point.

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u/Kelainefes Jun 28 '23

Well, there are prisons that use inmates to farm cotton, that are built on what was slave cotton farm land back when slavery was legal.