• @[email protected]
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    6011 months ago

    Slave. The word is slave. “Forced labor” sounds like it’s downplaying the severity.

    • PugJesusM
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      2211 months ago

      I don’t mean to downplay the severity, but there are procedural differences. Slavery was pro forma banned at the time. Effectively, I agree, for all practical purposes of the folk in chains, it was slavery.