The Part of History You've Always Skipped | Neoslavery

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended in threads on prison labor and American history as a thorough account of the post-Civil War period.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Knowing Better

Topic

american history of neoslavery

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2022–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• Knowing Better on YouTube produced a really good documentary answering "when was the last slave freed?" [^1]. His argument is that it didn't end until 1942, a mere 80 years ago. A big part of the reason why was the prison system and legal system, …

• There's no reason for scare quotes given the specific carveout for slavery which exists in the Constitution. If you have an issue with that verbiage, take it up with the 38th United States Congress and Abraham Lincoln. > do murderers get to walk free? You're …

• >classed as being marginally racist, usually they do not really mean the things they say. As someone that moved to a very very racist part of the US in their teens (near a sundown town), this is by far the most scary statement you could …