No wonder people like Harry Potter so much, they think if they say spells like “democracy” and “emancipation”, it magically materializes in the real world.
EXACTLY LMAO guys they LITERALLY wrote it down on their government paper. What more do you want?
Don’t ask about the sugar plantations. They’re paid! fine print, they’re paid pennies an hour
Modern equivalent: We put a fair trade sticker on that chocolate bar wrapper! What more do you commies want?
Lincoln was a powerful wizard who cast “Slaveryus Abolicus” and freed the slaves, but then John Wilkes Booth cast avada kadbra on him and he dead.
History taught through prism of whatever side knew the stronger spells.
Same vibe as “but black people are actually free in America dummie, doncha know about 1865? Checkmate >:)”
Separate but equal
Gusanos and crackers are two sides of the same coin honestly, they like dancing around the same semantic games to justify the atrocities they backed as ‘not being an issue anymore’.
You said the same word twice.
Sweetie they were free once they paid off their debts to the plantation owner.
So I guess libs absolutely love Haiti.
Yellow Parenti has a story about that.
If I’m understanding the context of the comments here correctly (recovering conservative here, I never learned history) while slaves were technically “freed”, or at least defined as not-slaves, in 1886 they were in a sort of Jim Crow situation until Castro came along. Is that right?
They were basically slaves but not legally slaves. They couldn’t leave the plantation(long termI mean, they could physically leave to go do things) and they didn’t get paid in real money and they could be punished corporeally. They could be shot for going onto land of someone who wanted to shoot them, including during medical emergencies where they would have spend extra hours or days going around massive estates to carry someone to the hospital. Conditions varied but like, that was the general deal.
