It is true that American slavery comes in for more scrutiny and condemnation than slavery in other regions and epochs. This is because our American media and liberal politicians and academics use the abolitionist-inspired history of American slavery almost exclusively to condemn the South, slavery, the effects of slavery, sometimes the whole USA, etc., in an effort to serve political ends today. The most extreme elements demand monetary reparations for slavery; others seek preferential college admissions, quotas, affirmative action, political correctness, election of Democrats, black contractors for urban projects, etc.
In truth, the United States was the best place in the world to be a slave, especially after 1808, when the slave trade was outlawed as soon as it could be under the terms of the U.S. Constitution. Booker T. Washington wrote that, “The ten million Negroes inhabiting this country, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American slavery, are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially, intellectually, morally, and religiously, than is true of an equal number of black people in any other portion of the globe.” Prison & Slavery - A Surprising Comparison: John Dewar Gleissner: 9781432753832: Amazon.com: Books (proves American slavery far from the worst, that cruelty was exaggerated and any happiness of slaves fully denied).
While there is much indignation about the events of over 150 years ago, a new form of slavery, New Age Slavery, mass incarceration, has crept in to ruin many lives, destroy communities and overburden American taxpayers while the “slaves” themselves sit around most of the time, without performing much useful or truly profitable work. Liberal media, politicians and academics cannot bring themselves to admit that techniques from the antebellum era provide the workable, economical, time-tested solutions to mass incarceration, but instead cling to the incarceration regime as the only thing they know. Prison Overcrowding Cure: Judicial Corporal Punishment of Adults. How to Create American Manufacturing Jobs. Incarceration Reform Mega-Site. They’d rather allow New Age Slavery before they are willing to consider or even discuss old procedures and private enterprise techniques on a race-neutral basis today.