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Originally Posted by Willravel
If they try to stop picking cotton, they will be beaten by their owner. If they try to leave, they will either have to go hundreds of miles being chased or will be caught, beaten and/or killed. That's their entire life, from the day they can pick cotton until the day they're too old or sick to pick cotton.
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that sounds like the life of a slave, which is detestable, i'm not denying that.
i don't think that when i see the picture. i see people standing in a field. i don't know the context of that picture. if they had chains on and the guy didn't have a shirt on, or if there was a white guy with a whip in the picture, i would feel outrage. people standing around in a field working doesn't bother me.
i cannot find it, but there is a rather famous (i think) Time/Life picture of a black man, shirtless, chained to a tree, having been whipped and beaten to death. THAT disturbs me and bothers me and makes me cringe.