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TIL: 1/4th of all US presidents were slaveowners (lemmy.ml)
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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

That's what I mean by penal slavery.

The reason I only included Clinton rather than every president who has benefitted from prison slave labor (which as you say is all of them), is that to my knowledge he's the only one who basically had house slaves provided to his home by the state prisons..