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Aboriginal Australians used as forced labor by European settlers, 1902 (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/historyporn@lemmy.world
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[–] 50 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I'm seeing chains on necks, looks like slavery to me. Even if they were prisoners, that is inhumane.

Fucking greasy to think it's so close to recent history.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The current US prison system is effectively legalised slavery, and is a big reason why US system doesn't do reform and incentives recedivism

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Still literally in the US constitution. 13th:

    Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And it only took the bloodiest civil war in history, a war we're still paying the price for not going the extra mile and abolishing the southern states and replacing them with Union members.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Such is the price to end slavery in America and advance the worldwide abolitionist movement.

    And I wish federal occupation had lasted significantly longer, enough to replace the older generation with a enlightened, Yankee way of thinking and attitude. That or go the route of Jacob Smith and just shoot about everyone above the age of ten and sell all the land for cheap.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    doesn't count if you don't think those wearing chains are people.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

    What gets me is that yeah that's their excuse, but if someone treated, say, an orangutan or a baboon like this I'd think that was pretty fucked up too. We were so gross. We still are (dog fighting, circus elephants etc) but the cruelty that we're capable of without what is essentially moral peer pressure, is chilling to think about. Even today we fight tooth and nail against moral progress and treating everyone with respect.

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