An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories
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An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories
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Re: An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories
#2I find these pretty disturbing. I like to think I'd never have stood by while someone enslaved someone else. But the banality of these ads makes it all seem quite commonplace and acceptable. Wicked times.
Re: An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories
#3Some of the ads have a little icon that shows a slave running away. Like it's a particular category of classified ad.
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#4I find these pretty disturbing. I like to think I'd never have stood by while someone enslaved someone else. But the banality of these ads makes it all seem quite commonplace and acceptable. Wicked times.
with a couple hundred years distance we could also recognise the early 21st century as an appalling nightmare.
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#5I find these pretty disturbing. I like to think I'd never have stood by while someone enslaved someone else. But the banality of these ads makes it all seem quite commonplace and acceptable. Wicked times.
with a couple hundred years distance we could also recognise the early 21st century as an appalling nightmare.
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Re: An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories
#6I find these pretty disturbing. I like to think I'd never have stood by while someone enslaved someone else. But the banality of these ads makes it all seem quite commonplace and acceptable. Wicked times.
Ways to contribute to stop 21st century slavery here:
http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/30/chariti...
Re: An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories
#7I have a very different view on this (ready to be downvoted into oblivion).
What was done to slaves of homo sapiens species in the recent past is being done today with dogs, cats and many other slaves of different species. Have you seen the ads where 'owners' of creatures who escaped offer financial reward to anyone who finds them?
People who are against slavery of members of homo sapiens species show no critical thinking or introspection. Since you grew up in the environment where having pets(slaves of other species) is considered normal and acceptable, you are not against it. But, because you happen to be born in a particular part of history where human slavery is though of as bad, you also join the herd in talking against 'evil' of human slavery. Have you analyzed the issue of animal slavery in a critical way or asked yourself why you believe what you believe? Most importantly, have you asked yourself whether anything(any movement of matter and energy) is objectively right or wrong?
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#8I find these pretty disturbing. I like to think I'd never have stood by while someone enslaved someone else. But the banality of these ads makes it all seem quite commonplace and acceptable. Wicked times.
I found the one that doubled as an ad comical
"Please return him to my house on Fouche St., which is next to Julie St. WHO HAS FOR SALE one woman"
I read it in Stewie's voice
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#9I have a very different view on this (ready to be downvoted into oblivion). What was done to slaves of homo sapiens species in the recent past is being done today with dogs, cats and many other slaves of different species. Have you seen the ads where 'owners' of creatures who escaped offer financial reward to anyone who finds them? People who are against slavery of members of homo sapiens species show no critical thi…
Did you just put evil in quotation marks when referring to human slavery?
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#10I find these pretty disturbing. I like to think I'd never have stood by while someone enslaved someone else. But the banality of these ads makes it all seem quite commonplace and acceptable. Wicked times.
The modern prison-industrial complex is also disturbing if you look at the relative representation of different population segments.