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TIL: 1/4th of all US presidents were slaveowners (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Special mention for Bill Clinton who benefited from penal slavery in the governor's mansion while governor of Arkansas.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

True...it could be 100% if we include the US's currently legal form of slavery: prison labour.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week 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..