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Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread by ModernMech on Saturday September 05, 2026 @12:06AM (#49572978)
That's not the point, it's that people who were slaves died in a time when color TVs existed. This woman died in 1964! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_J._Cooper

That's not long enough ago to call it ancient history.

Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread by bluGill on Saturday September 05, 2026 @07:05AM (#49575358)
Someone who died in 1964 was technically a slave, but not yet old enough to function as a slave. Real slaves were mostly dead by 1940, the few who remained are outliers
Re:Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread by ModernMech on Sunday September 06, 2026 @07:26AM (#49585444)
Do you understand how that’s really beside the point? Moreover babies being born into slavery served the slave system just as much as a grown man slaving in a field. Slave is a legal status in a system, not a job title. A baby born into slavery is a real slave, not a fake slave.

  Either George, who enslaved her mother, or his brother, Dr. Fabius Haywood, who enslaved her older brothers, Rufus and Andrew,[3] was probably Anna's father
So Anna came into existence because her mother was raped by a man who legally owned her as property. And that was recent enough that Anna lived to witness Gilligan’s Island.

And anyway, she was still a slave until she was six and served her masters as a domestic house servant. When you were six you were probably being educated to read and write and do math.

You guys are so quick with your “well ackshually” that you’re missing the point which is very simple and has been restated by other posters.