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Why not keep going and just start selling prisoners directly into indenture? You could call them "servants" and sell them on blocks to the highest bidder. Requi
by throwway120385 3y ago
Why not keep going and just start selling prisoners directly into indenture? You could call them "servants" and sell them on blocks to the highest bidder. Require as a condition of purchase that a percentage of the purchase price be delivered into their hands when their indenture ends.
- gjsman-1000 3y agoIf we cannot punish prisoners for their crimes by being required to do even a modicum of labor (it's certainly not brutal anymore), why even put them in jail in the first place? We're restricting their right to free movement, which is de-facto slavery. If we want to abolish slavery fully, prisons themselves cannot exist.
- ceejayoz 3y ago> why even put them in jail in the first place? To keep them separate from the society they're having trouble safely engaging with. > We're restricting their right to free movement, which is de-facto slavery. No; imprisonment and slavery are not the same thing. You can't just redefine words to make your strawman argument work.