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Samantha Bee: A Reminder to Our Government That White Supremacist Violence Is Terrorism

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No Malarkey!8/08/2019 9:24:51 pm PDT

re: #82 mmmirele

I like what historian Edward Baptist did in his book ā€œThe Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism.ā€ He called the ā€œplantationsā€ another nameā€”ā€œslave labor campsā€. I think thatā€™s a perfectly fine and true name. (PS If youā€™ve never read this book, highly, highly recommended. Yeah, itā€™s economics, yeah it has charts, but you will understand so much about WHY slavery is a live issue, even down to today.)

In touring a S.C. Plantation, I learned that they kidnapped West African villagers and brought them to SC to cultivate rice. They werenā€™t unskilled labor, they were being exploited for their expertise in rice cultivation.