• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The only reason corporations aren’t doing chattel slavery in the U.S. right now is that they’re legally barred from it.

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      1 year ago

      I just heard an NPR story about US Steel Corp using chattel slavery less than a hundred years ago. They worked people to death and buried them in unmarked graves.