Patterns of Death in the South Still Show the Outlines of Slavery

Re:Patterns of Death in the South Still Show the Outlines of... by RingwormOne on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:28PM (#15543342)

And when we talk about slavery it's usually in the sense of racialized, bondage-from-birth slavery rather than penal labor.

The two are very different, and using the word 'slavery' to refer to both conflates meaning and disguises the important differences between the two.

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Re:Patterns of Death in the South Still Show the Outlines of... by lliamander on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:59PM (#15543671)

I think the term you may be looking for is "Noncentral Fallacy"

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Re:Patterns of Death in the South Still Show the Outlines of... by RingwormOne on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:37PM (#15544050)

Exactly. Thank you

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Re:Patterns of Death in the South Still Show the Outlines of... by bjl on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @03:16PM (#15544392)

Penal labor is coerced, unpaid labor which is by definition slavery.

What you're referring to is chattel slavery.

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