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Originally Posted by Little32
@ SEC Of course, now elementary school textbooks in Georgia are labeling slavery "low-wage labor." Perhaps that is to your comfort.
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That's certainly a capitalist approach to slavery. "Low wage labor" is the market terminology but to be realistic they should put "no wage labor for the slaves but the pay went to the slave sellers."
I didn't know textbooks were saying that. Do you know when they started including this?
But it isn't too far off the mark for people who believe that it was about the labor and not about where the people came from (i.e. the belief that Africans were only chosen because they were identifiable as NOT European). I agree with that framework to a great extent but believe that the reinforcing role that prejudice and racism played should not be downplayed or ignored.
Ditto @ the rest of your post, btw.