The lie about when slavery ended

SSG Waldo Yamada It happens in other parts of the world also. We always hear about the Middle East and we used to hear about Korea, and it happens in Latin America, but is rarely if ever talked about. Thank you for your input.

SSG Robert Webster - It has mostly faded in Korea, but it is not gone.

If PBS by airing this documentary film is changing the definition of slavery, their not doing it by much. Anyway, it was not just companies that were treating former slaves and poor whites in a poor manner, it was also other people, and our government at various levels going all the way up to the federal level and though they try to show that it ended in or around the early years of WWII under the direction of Roosevelt, it actually continued on until the Johnson Administration, if you look closely enough. Not only that personal slavery is still practiced in the US today, it has just moved a little bit further underground after the changes brought about by the Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments Act of 1986. And whether it is enforced indenture or a mechanism of sexual slavery, it is still heinous and still slavery. You do know that peonage (subsistence share-cropping) is basically the same as serfdom, vassalage, or peasant hood, without the privileges of being a free tenant? Or to give an example that is more relatable - debt bondage, most prevalent in the coal industry in the US.

SSG Robert Webster - Serf's weren't necessarily free tenants. Most feudal societies had pretty strict laws regarding what their serfs were allowed to do or if they were allowed to move freely because if they moved the landlord would lose some of their distinction with his lord.
You are correct while slavery is illegal today due to the 13th amendment it still happens, whether it is sex slaves or worker slaves, in the underground economy.

SSgt (Join to see) - You might want to go back and reread my statement. I did not say or imply that serfs were free tenant's.