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Subject: Re: Re: Stalin and slavery - (nf)
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ucbesvax!turner    Dec 15 17:08:00 1983

Re: Re: Stalin and slavery

The U.S. might have openly repudiated slavery, and Stalin might still be an
object of sneaky admiration in the USSR, and certainly slavery of a kind
exists there still, but the implication is that slavery no longer exists
in the U.S.

This, despite some recent convictions of slave-holders in the South.
And it is possible that these are the tip of an ugly iceberg.  I saw
a slide-show called "American Pictures" a few weeks back, which was
oppressively didactic, but did bring home at least one point before I
walked out in the middle: slavery still exists in the U.S.  You have
to look hard, but it's there.  The Old South lives--after almost 120
years.  It's not open trade in bodies anymore, certainly, but there are
still places where farm-worker can't walk off the job without being
riddled with buck-shot.
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Michael Turner (ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner)