Worth noting when slavery was the law of the land in America few could afford to own slaves (as we keep hearing) but many *hired* slaves
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"Hiring out" enslaved workers was a v common way for slaveowners to supplement their income and most poorer white ppl took advantage of it
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Alexander Hamilton, notably, never owned slaves bc he didn't have much money but records show he hired their labor all the time
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Contradicting the musical painting him as a quasi abolitionist
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Nowadays thanks to the complexity of modern capitalism we know trafficking happens but if it's one or two links removed we don't notice
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That's what that Atlantic piece has me thinking abt re: going out to eat, sleeping in hotels, etc
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Cf that time there was a huge expose on exploited/trafficked labor in nail salons that caused a huge defensive backlash
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Asian-Americans have a lot of skeletons in our own closet we need to confront over this issue
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I pretty much stopped buying tomatoes after reading about slavery in Florida.
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