Modern Day Slavery In The Modern Day South

[Agent Zero]

This is incredibly creepy and not suprising at all. We've got relatives in the area, including where this happened, Conway...as well as Myrtle Beach and Georgetown...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...an/2527814001/

A white restaurant manager was sentenced to 10 years for enslaving and beating a black man

A white South Carolina restaurant manager has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for enslaving a black worker with an intellectual disability for five years, forcing him to work more than 100 hours a week without pay and frequently beating him with a belt, the Justice Department said Thursday.
On one occasion, according to the Department of Justice, Bobby Paul Edwards, the manager of J&J Cafeteria in Conway, South Carolina, "dipped metal tongs into hot grease and burned the victim’s neck" for failing to deliver fried chicken to the buffet quickly.
Edwards "yelled at the victim and used racial slurs to belittle and demean him," the Justice Department said in announcing the sentencing.
In addition to the prison sentence, Edwards was required to pay the worker, John Christopher Smith, more than $500,000 in damages, including $272,000 in the back pay he never received.
Smith's ordeal finally ended in 2014 when the mother-in-law of a waitress notified authorities of the abuse.
“It is almost inconceivable that instances of forced labor endure in this country to this day – a century and a half after the Emancipation Proclamation,” said Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Civil Rights Division.

[Peter1469]

There is a lot of modern day slavery in the US. And it is not geographically limited.

[Tahuyaman]

There is a lot of modern day slavery in the US. And it is not geographically limited.

We’ve had several incidents up here in the Pacific NW.

[Captdon]

This is incredibly creepy and not suprising at all. We've got relatives in the area, including where this happened, Conway...as well as Myrtle Beach and Georgetown...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...an/2527814001/

A white restaurant manager was sentenced to 10 years for enslaving and beating a black man

A white South Carolina restaurant manager has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for enslaving a black worker with an intellectual disability for five years, forcing him to work more than 100 hours a week without pay and frequently beating him with a belt, the Justice Department said Thursday.
On one occasion, according to the Department of Justice, Bobby Paul Edwards, the manager of J&J Cafeteria in Conway, South Carolina, "dipped metal tongs into hot grease and burned the victim’s neck" for failing to deliver fried chicken to the buffet quickly.
Edwards "yelled at the victim and used racial slurs to belittle and demean him," the Justice Department said in announcing the sentencing.
In addition to the prison sentence, Edwards was required to pay the worker, John Christopher Smith, more than $500,000 in damages, including $272,000 in the back pay he never received.
Smith's ordeal finally ended in 2014 when the mother-in-law of a waitress notified authorities of the abuse.
“It is almost inconceivable that instances of forced labor endure in this country to this day – a century and a half after the Emancipation Proclamation,” said Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Civil Rights Division.

Only a very stupid person would take this to mean anything except one bad guy.

[Chris]

"This is incredibly creepy and not suprising at all."

I get "incredibly creepy"but not "not suprising at all."

Other members report incidents, but I don't see a continuation of the institution of slavery. Modern day slavery usually refers to human trafficking.

[donttread]

There is a lot of modern day slavery in the US. And it is not geographically limited.

[donttread]

There is a lot of modern day slavery in the US. And it is not geographically limited.

It is a blight on our name. Look at sex trafficking. How low of an individual would you have to be to participate in that practice? A daily job description that includes rape , false imprisonment, assault , etc, etc etc.
It should carry the death penalty.

[Rationalist]

It is a blight on our name. Look at sex trafficking. How low of an individual would you have to be to participate in that practice? A daily job description that includes rape , false imprisonment, assault , etc, etc etc.
It should carry the death penalty.

It's pretty bad, but we're actually not as bad about it as a lot of the rest of the world. The most blatant slavery right now is occurring in Libya, where primarily Arabs are buying people.

Granted, Arabs were the first to buy African slaves in the far past as well. Before the Atlantic Slave Trade, Arabs had been buying Africans for a long time.