Topic: If slavery was still legal in the United States of America.
Anonymous A started this discussion 7 years ago#82,056
If slavery were still legal in the United States of America, how come I get the feeling that the slave owners would be corporations who purchase laborers from poverty-stricken areas of the country and foreign lands? I could imagine that the workforce might be smaller when all of these companies have free labor with no need to hire people which would require payment. I could actually picture an Amazon distribution center with small apartment-like structures behind them to house all of their slave-workers. The question that remains is how well would these companies treat their slaves and if the brutality from the days of the Atlantic-Slave Trade would carry over. Surely, you wouldn't go far just by enslaving one group of people when you could double the amount of your workforce by enslaving others. There are whites in these poverty-stricken areas too so why not just buy them as well? However, how would they go from living just above homelessness to becoming a group's personal property?
Anonymous A (OP) double-posted this 7 years ago, 5 minutes later[^][v]#949,406
Maybe slavery gets abolished when concerned citizens start getting uneasy with so many potential jobs being taken by slaves. This, of course, could lead to the issue of thousands, maybe, millions of people becoming stateless.
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 24 minutes later, 29 minutes after the original post[^][v]#949,411