How many times have you heard slavery was on the decline by the start of the Civil War? Also a lot. (2/20) 🧜🏻♀️
Not reality.
Definitely not reality in Richmond.
What did slavery look like just before the Civil War began? Let’s talk about it. (3/20) 🧜🏻♀️
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NO. OTHER. SOUTHERN. CITY. (7/20) 🧜🏻♀️
More “non-elite” white people owned slaves than owned homes.
Slave ownership rates were DOUBLE home ownership rates among NON-ELITE white people.
Slavery was evolving. (8/20) 🧜🏻♀️
The law was passed 1/9/1866.
The Civil War ended 4/9/1965.
That is a direct reference to ending slavery. (10/20) 🧜🏻♀️
It didn’t even take a YEAR to create a loophole.
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- Hiring a female slave for 1 year: $34
- Hiring a male slave for 1 year: $70
- Purchasing an adult male slave: $250-900
- Purchasing an adult female slave: $100-600 (14/20) 🧜🏻♀️
Average annual hiring cost of a female slave in 1800-1840 was $34. That is ~$675-980 today. If that was a 40 hour work week, the hourly wage today would be $0.32-$0.47. (15/20) 🧜🏻♀️
That gender and race based wage gap isn’t a new development. #JustSaying (17/20) 🧜🏻♀️