Rusty Corgi on Nostr: Yeah, indentured servitude is slavery and slavery is very much still legal in the US. ...

Yeah, indentured servitude is slavery and slavery is very much still legal in the US. There's a reason nearly 1% of the US population is in prisons slaving away for corporate profit.

*That said*, in the context of the colonies and early US indentured servants refer to generally white people serving out a crime or paying off a debt, while slavery is more generally thought of as the enslavement of black people in the south. I'm specifically not conflating those two things.