The full video of the people who were slaves up until the 1960s. Listen to how the owner of the plantation talk about free rent and bs. It seems like the people there are still slaves. There was different forms of slavery and everyone wasn’t beaten daily or mistreated—it’s a lifestyle and mentality. Slavery was agreements and contracts many times enforced with fear or attachment. One of the men still lives on the plantation “rent free” but it’s implied that he isn’t paid for his work. I’ve seen old court documents of homeless melanated people asking the court to be enslaved under contract bond to a certain person to eat and have a roof over their head. That’s slavery. It was not all “whips and chains”. That’s why it lasted for so long.
youtube.com The Slavery Detective of the South Slavery might have ended on paper after the Civil War, but many white landowners did everything they could to exploit newly freed slaves well into the 20th c…