The American media loves saying that, but does it really have a right to exist? Does an apartheid colonizing regime have the right to exist in someone else’s land?

  • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That does seem like a good criteria, but that is an extremely small and limited amount of people. Slave owners were by far concentrated in the South, and only the ultra-wealthy could afford to own slaves to begin with. It was only a 1-2 percent of people owning 95%+ of all slaves. As most free people in the South, white or black, were themselves near destitute and extremely poor.

    people rented slaves, and for the purposes of this discussion, that should be at least partial credit for “owning”

    • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Sure, but how in the world would you ever prove that? I doubt less then 1 percent of the receipts from those transactions survived.