I mean, the argument could be made that some future Presidents didn’t own slaves, but created the conditions to make a lot more slaveowners prosper elsewhere. Fuck, I’m gonna stop thinking on this one.
These guys almost certainly have investments in private prisons, I have no doubt about that. While it’s not quite the same as outright owning a person, they own shares in companies that preside over and profit from ongoing slavery to this day. Our modern financial system has done a bang up job of obfuscating slavery by making it too abstract for most people to notice, but today’s policing and prison institutions are direct descendants of yesterday’s escaped slave patrols and plantations.
I mean, the argument could be made that some future Presidents didn’t own slaves, but created the conditions to make a lot more slaveowners prosper elsewhere. Fuck, I’m gonna stop thinking on this one.
There’s also definitely an argument that Trump would own slaves if it were still legal (Biden falls under this category too).
These guys almost certainly have investments in private prisons, I have no doubt about that. While it’s not quite the same as outright owning a person, they own shares in companies that preside over and profit from ongoing slavery to this day. Our modern financial system has done a bang up job of obfuscating slavery by making it too abstract for most people to notice, but today’s policing and prison institutions are direct descendants of yesterday’s escaped slave patrols and plantations.