Slavery, Texas Observer. Call it slavery. It may be legal, but it’s still slavery.
Imagine how much more impact the headline would have been if it instead read: Texas’ Plantation Prisons: Inside a 200-Year History of Slavery Shrouded in Secrecy
Because even “forced labor” doesn’t make it sound as bad as it actually is. Only one word does.
Slavery, Texas Observer. Call it slavery. It may be legal, but it’s still slavery.
Imagine how much more impact the headline would have been if it instead read: Texas’ Plantation Prisons: Inside a 200-Year History of Slavery Shrouded in Secrecy
Because even “forced labor” doesn’t make it sound as bad as it actually is. Only one word does.