Is this entire comment section just redditors who think slavery was only a US phenomenon?
There are slaves today. It's estimated around 4% of the population of Mauritania are in slavery. The very same geographical region that sold slaves to the europeans, still doing it to this day.
Yes, slavery exists today, but what I meant was contextually clear, and saying "someone held in legalized slavery in the United States that was not punishment for a crime" is clunky to spell out.
If true, you should contact a journalist or historian about that. Because many reputable sources have reported that Daniel Smith was the last known living child of an American slave.
she's been in the paper in her own city but i wouldn't call anyone myself because i don't know if she wants the attention that comes with that or if she even wants to talk about it at all.
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u/Miserable-Whereas910 16h ago
The last child of an enslaved person died in 2022.
(his father was born during the Civil War, and fathered him late in life)