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[[File:Buck_breakers_soyjaks.jpg|thumb|300px|Two slave owners contemplate [[Buck breaking|something]]]] | |||
[[File:Plantation_owner_Pepe.png|thumb|300px|A batrachian plantation owner]] | |||
'''Slavery''' is the not-so-[[wholesome]] practice of placing a fellow human being under forced ownership of another, effectively reducing them to a purchasable, vendible item of commerce. It is specifically an economic phenomenon, as it is a system designed to solve a labour scarcity problem by using violence to drive production costs to zero; the enslaved are synonymized with capital assets to maximize profit. That said, you'd be surprised with how underrepresented [[Jews]] were in the slave trade, accounting for a measly 0.039% of large plantation owners and 0.036% of major slaveholders.<ref>[https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/03/02/slavery-the-jews a.] ''"There were only twenty-three Jews among the 59,000 slaveholders owning twenty or more slaves and just four Jews among the 11,000 slaveholders owning fifty or more slaves. In other words, the South’s “master class” of big plantation owners was 99.9 percent non-Jewish. Also in 1830, 11,912 slaves were owned by 3,647 free “persons of color” who outnumbered Jewish slaveholders by fifteen to one."''</ref> | |||
Today, slavery stands abolished in all 193 member states of the [[United Nations]], although the practice [[ironic]]ally survives in much of [[Africa]], with Mauritania being the last country to officially abolish slavery in 1981, and therein it would only be actually illegalized as a crime with genuine penal consequences in 2007.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/world/as-slavery-evolves-in-mauritania-silent-victims-prove-harder-to-find-idUSKCN1NC02R/ b.] ''"Mauritania abolished slavery in 1981, the last country to do so, and criminalized it in 2007."''</ref> | |||
Debate regarding whether or not negroes are owed reparations unfortunately remains contentious, and an oft-cited defense of proponents is that the modern racial wealth gap arising from Jim Crow constrains the solutions to one: reparations from whites. Remind them that: | |||
*Everyone would woe reparations to everyone else as slavery was widespread. | |||
**Thousands of "free negroes" also owned slaves. | |||
*Millions of [[white]] americans arrived after slavery and never owned slaves or were complacent. | |||
*After the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, white slaves were still being bought and sold decades later by North African Barbary pirates and in the Middle East. | |||
*The dead can't pay and living generations aren't responsible. | |||
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Revision as of 02:04, 17 August 2026
Slavery is the not-so-wholesome practice of placing a fellow human being under forced ownership of another, effectively reducing them to a purchasable, vendible item of commerce. It is specifically an economic phenomenon, as it is a system designed to solve a labour scarcity problem by using violence to drive production costs to zero; the enslaved are synonymized with capital assets to maximize profit. That said, you'd be surprised with how underrepresented Jews were in the slave trade, accounting for a measly 0.039% of large plantation owners and 0.036% of major slaveholders.[1]
Today, slavery stands abolished in all 193 member states of the United Nations, although the practice ironically survives in much of Africa, with Mauritania being the last country to officially abolish slavery in 1981, and therein it would only be actually illegalized as a crime with genuine penal consequences in 2007.[2]
Debate regarding whether or not negroes are owed reparations unfortunately remains contentious, and an oft-cited defense of proponents is that the modern racial wealth gap arising from Jim Crow constrains the solutions to one: reparations from whites. Remind them that:
- Everyone would woe reparations to everyone else as slavery was widespread.
- Thousands of "free negroes" also owned slaves.
- Millions of white americans arrived after slavery and never owned slaves or were complacent.
- After the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, white slaves were still being bought and sold decades later by North African Barbary pirates and in the Middle East.
- The dead can't pay and living generations aren't responsible.
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- ↑ a. "There were only twenty-three Jews among the 59,000 slaveholders owning twenty or more slaves and just four Jews among the 11,000 slaveholders owning fifty or more slaves. In other words, the South’s “master class” of big plantation owners was 99.9 percent non-Jewish. Also in 1830, 11,912 slaves were owned by 3,647 free “persons of color” who outnumbered Jewish slaveholders by fifteen to one."
- ↑ b. "Mauritania abolished slavery in 1981, the last country to do so, and criminalized it in 2007."
