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> This is also true of American slaves. Bullshit. By the 19th century (which is the century everybody talks about) it was almost legally impossible to free a s
by Hizonner 5y ago
> This is also true of American slaves.
Bullshit. By the 19th century (which is the century everybody talks about) it was almost legally impossible to free a slave in the American south (things like, say, a $200 tax in Florida... which was more money than most people saw in a year).
Even when possible it was essentially never done.
> So is this. You think the child of a free black was enslaved?
In many of the US slave states, if you were a free black person, regardless of who your parents were, you had to either leave the state within a fixed time, or you would be enslaved. So, yes.
- metalliqaz 5y agoenslaved to whom?
- wavefunction 5y agoCaught by "slave catchers"/kidnappers and sold at slave auctions.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> By the 19th century (which is the century everybody talks about) it was almost legally impossible to free a slave in the American south (things like, say, a $200 tax in Florida... which was more money than most people saw in a year). Believe it or not, most slaves were owned by fairly wealthy people.