It’s hard to believe that we have in this country an underclass consisting of modern-day slaves.
Our idea of slaves is of black men and women kidnapped by slave traders and shipped to the New World, where they were sold through the auction block. They were made to work in tobacco and cotton plantations without pay, given only enough food to keep their strength for the day’s labor. For insubordination, they were mercilessly whipped or, in extreme cases, hanged. They and their children could be sold anytime.
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