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people are always like âare you a morning person or a night personâ and Iâm just like buddy Iâm barely even a person
âWhen did slavery end in America?â
If you ask a white teenager, you might get the answer, âFour hundred years ago.â But thatâs not the answer. Four hundred years ago was 1615, when the Jamestown colony had only existed for eight years and chattel slavery was just beginning.
Others might say, âWhen Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, of course.â But thatâs not right either. That only freed slaves in Confederate territory seized by the Union. The Union slave statesâMissouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and the then-in-formation West Virginiaâwere exempt and allowed to keep their slaves, along with Tennessee, which had more or less been returned to the Union, and Union-loyal areas of Louisiana (including New Orleans) and coastal Virginia. Because it was unenforceable in most of the Confederate states, only about 1-2% of slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
âWell, then,â they might say, âit was definitely when the Thirteenth Amendment was passed.â And still, they would be wrong. While that pivotal law did free the vast majority of Americaâs slaves, the text of the law is this: âNeither 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.â
So when did slavery end in America? The answer is, âNever.â
As discussed in the PBS documentary Slavery By Another Name (available in full by clicking the link), as the federal government withdrew funding and support for Reconstruction, the South began a system of leasing prisonersâallowed by law to be used as slavesâto the plantations to replace their free labor. Those affected by this system were treated even worse than those held in bondage under slavery before the Civil War, as slaves were an expensive investmentâthe $800 average cost of a slave in 1860 is roughly $21,000 in todayâs dollarsâbut leased prisoners were replaced by the prison if killed and payment continued as scheduled, deincentivizing what little humane treatment was afforded slaves.
It was so profitable and in such high demand that, within ten years of its implementation, the stereotype of black people in America had changed. Prior to the Civil War, the stereotype of black people was that we were inherently docile, servile, and loyal. This only makes sense, because if we were viewed as inherently violent and thieving and criminal like we are today, why would they have trusted us with their livelihoods, their crops, and their children? (Side note: this is also where the stereotype of black people loving watermelon came fromâthe idea that if we were just given a cool slice of watermelon on a hot day, we would work forever). But once they were no longer allowed to own us outright and had to lease us from prisons, police and judges did everything in their power to make sure they had a robust source of free labor. Black people were arrested on false or trumped-up charges, and within ten years, the recorded arrest and conviction rate for black people had skyrocketed so much that the stereotype was entirely inverted from what it had been previously.
The prison system may have stopped leasing prisoners to plantations, but they still lease prison labor to corporations and local governments. Prisonersâprimarily black, of course, because we are targetedâare forced to fight wildfires, manufacture consumer goods, and even make goat cheese for Whole Foods. Our economy was built on slave labor, and it still runs on it to a disconcerting extent. And to make that work, black and Latino neighborhoods are targeted by law enforcement and manipulated through things like school closings and schools being unfathomably underfunded to ensure an ever-growing population of prisoners, an ever-growing population of slaves.
So the next time someone asks you when slavery ended in America, tell them the truth. Tell them, âNever.â
Read this because itâs so fucking important to know.
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Matt Furieâs âTuff Crowdâ at Nucleus Portland.
Currently on view until April 3rd, 2019 at Nucleus Portland in Portland, Oregon is artist Matt Furieâs fantastic solo exhibition, âTuff Crowd.â
Furie is best known for his character Pepe, a fun-loving stoner frog from his comic Boyâs Club, who has become a ubiquitous internet meme. In 2012, McSweeneyâs published Furieâs first childrenâs book, The Night Riders, a wordless tale about the adventures of two best friends, a frog, and a rat. Heâs currently based in Los Angeles.
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i just got a whiff of the argan oil in my hair and reminded me of an old situationship of sorts and it's kind funny but weird realizing im like copying his scents now with the argan oil and the body spray đŹđŹ big yiKe
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why are boys so incompetent my god
i literally only came to write this exact same thing again
why are boys so incompetent my god
Takefumi Aida, Toy Block House X, Shibuya, Tokyo, 1984
lately i find that wine drunk is the best kind of drunk to be
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Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
(Arch. Norman Engleback, Ron Herron, Warren Chalk & John Attenborough, 1963-68)
Photo by Carlos Traspaderne with Hasselblad 500 C/M & Kodak film.