"She stormed up to the counter, dragging his unconscious form behind her. 'This one's broken! I demand compensation!' The cashier rolled her eyes but handed the surly customer her money back."
The more I think about this prompt the more it sounds like human trafficking.
I believe very strongly in the protection of basic human rights, and while I have read and written some questionable fanfics, that never means I support it.
Being from the states, our schools teach us a lot about slavery and our Civil War because it was an astonishingly large part of our history, and equal rights for all Americans didn't truly come about until almost the 1970's.
At the time before the Civil War, our nation had developed to a point where we had a North and a South, and had they been separate countries, the South would be the fourth richest country in the world.
The reason they were separate in the first place was because of both climate and the issue of slavery; the North believed in factories and more industrialism in general, whereas the South was agricultural.
Slavery wouldn't have been such a big deal if it hadn't been for the cotton gin, which was supposed to make harvesting cotton easier, and therefore reducing the need for slaves.
Slavery was on the decline before that, and unfortunately with the invention of the cotton gin, cotton could be produced much faster and demand increased which made profit increase by 1000%, I believe, it might be more though. It was over 100%, I know that.
After that, the government basically added states in an order of one free state, one slave state, but eventually there were more free states than slave states and slave states were angry bois but they also felt threatened because they feared slavery might become illegal and their entire economy depended on it.
Eventually all this bs lead to the Civil War, which was inevitable, North won the war, and September 22nd, 1862, all the slaves were declared free by an executive order of President Abraham Lincoln. The abolishment of slavery was only officially added to the Constitution as the Thirteenth Amendment on December 18th, 1865 though.
Yeah then we had another 100 years of segregation and extreme racism. Blacks could only finally attend white schools in the South when the Little Rock Nine, or nine African American students were sent to Central High in Arkansas. They faced a lot of bullshit that I'm not gonna list here but if you're curious there's a book called Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patillo Beals, who was one of the Little Rock Nine.
For a timescale, she's still alive today. She's 77. A reminder, she was in her third year of high school when she went to Central High, and 1957 isn't as long ago as you might think.
I went off on a huge rant and a summary of the American Civil War, but anyway the point was simply DO NOT SUPPORT SLAVERY.
As a kink it's fine cuz that's consensual (If both sides of the relationship consent to it)but holding someone against their will for either free labor or sexual reasons is illegal and morally wrong.
Sorry if you expected my usual smut/crack for the prompt it's a lil serious today
actually a lot serious
oh hey I have a Social Studies quiz today on a lot of this shit
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