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"State power is weak" is a weird claim since the powerful states don't prevent trade with slavers. Powerful states like US and China run slavery operations dire
by lupire 4y ago
"State power is weak" is a weird claim since the powerful states don't prevent trade with slavers.
Powerful states like US and China run slavery operations directly. It's even explicitly enshrined in the US Constitution.
- WalterBright 4y agoThe US didn't become a powerful state until the Constitution was amended to ban slavery. The Confederacy, for example, was militarily and economically a very weak state. It couldn't even supply shoes to its soldiers. It was unable to pierce the blockade on them by the Union. And so on.
- prottog 4y agoIt's a far stretch to say that allowing slavery or involuntary servitude as a penalty for duly convicted criminal is somehow "enshrining" it.