Uh. huh. Sure. I’ll be over here, wondering how in the flying blue fuck anyone doesn’t get that it doesn’t matter what Oglethorpe states his mission to be, his actions make him a fucking slaver.
Oglethorpe is making money off of keeping his workers there. That much is absolutely true. He is getting paid by these people’s families to take them off their hands, and what we see in the show seems to imply that it’s a one-time transaction. Money changes hands, men are brought to the place against their will – and then they… what, according to this person? Just randomly volunteer to, what, help Mr. Magnanimous Oglethorpe to bring in his crops? They just willingly pick up tools they’ve never before had to touch or even consider in their lives? Give themselves blisters and do back-breaking work out of the goodness of their noble, privileged, wealthy hearts? That’s why there are guards with guns and cudgels watching the field, because they’re there voluntarily?
Bullshit, Anon. Oglethorpe is making those men work, and he’s doing it with the specific intent of making money off their labor which they will never see any of. I don’t give two shits what Oglethorpe tells himself at night so he can sleep in his feather bed while the men on his farm presumably lie down on straw mattresses or blankets – he’s a goddamn slaver in that he brings men to his farm against their wills, forces them to work, and has no intention of ever letting them leave. I don’t care what portion of his profits come from the farm itself, even if it’s fucking miniscule, and I guarantee you that it’s not, because, newsflash, rich men don’t ever, ever, ever give up any profit they can possibly make. Slavery is slavery is goddamn slavery. I’m honestly kind of sickened at the argument presented, because they’re essentially going “the prisoners aren’t making Oglethorpe much profit so therefore it’s not slavery.” Um… excuse me? Just….
No. Absolutely no. Fuck this argument and fuck the person who made it.
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