Opinion | KeishaBlain: North Carolina plantation's Juneteenth event underscores South's historical whitewashing. - MSNBCDaily
Slavery in the United States was far more than work without wages. It was a brutal and exploitative economic and labor system, which relegated Black people to nothing more than property for 250 years. Unlike other forms of unfree labor throughout history, including domestic slavery in west and central Africa and indentured servitude in Europe, slavery in the United States kept Black people in bondage for life.
Contrary to the Latta Plantation’s description of slaveowners as merely “overseers,” white slaveholders did not simply supervise the activities of enslaved people on plantations. The slavery system was not passive. Contrary to the Latta Plantation’s description of slaveowners as merely “overseers,” white slaveholders did not simply supervise the activities of enslaved people on plantations. White slaveholders exploited Black people — stripping them of all political, social, and economic rights — in an effort to maximize their own wealth and influence. They also attempted to strip the enslaved of their humanity and agency through unrelenting terror and violence.
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