scully holy fuck

ICE killed another person in maine today, just days after the murder of lorenzo salgado araujo in houston

the maine immigrants rights coalition has released a statement confirming he was a 26 year old columbian man who was authorized to work in the US and had a valid social security number

Or the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP): https://ilapmaine.org/

So piracy is at worst not even a problem, and at best it's free advertisement.

Source: (the link to the actual study is in the article)

-having a job

-not having a job

-applying for jobs

-the job market

Because it's not like you had to pay them, so once your family owned someone, they owned them and their descendants indefinitely. Could you pay and eventually free em- sure! You could also send them anywhere you want for any labor you want, could have an enslaved woman bred for more children, or maybe save up and buy new slaves and sell the old. Like cattle (thus, chattel slavery).

So it's interesting that many people go "oh well it's not like my family owned slaves!" Because like, one, how do you know that? Have you ever actually asked your grandmas about their grandmas? How many of your family members grew up with mammies? Have you ever asked? I wonder how many people have actually done the digging for the truth (or was it easier to just benefit). Because I've talked to my grandma, who picked cotton in the sea islands. She had to have been doing that for someone in the 1930s and 40s!

26 years later, in 1833, they banned slavery by buying and freeing all remaining slaves, because the owners were entitled to compensation, you see.

And they forced the "freed" "former" slaves to pay for part of it by forcing the "freed" "former" slaves to work for their "former" masters for 4 more years, 45 hours a week.

(I haven't read that they were treated more harshly than before at this time, but when you expect to get free labour from someone for several decades, you invest in them keeping the ability to produce labour for you - when there's a deadline, you work them to the bone and who cares if they die. I'm assuming the worst of the worst happened then.)

The rest of the cost was paid for by taxes. Comparing finances and inflation across three centuries is a bit imprecise, but remember that this compensation to slavers was so high, that loan was only finally paid for in 2015.