Birdwatch Note Rating
2024-01-19 06:04:51 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 508CF8168DA0FDF147BF10FDA7D97E0742ACF88F9867B4C811D6DBDC42433DF7
Participant Details
Original Note:
The Atlantic Slave Trade made extremely large contributors to the foundations America is built on, being responsible for the construction of major infrastructure across the country. It is unwise to dismiss slave labor as "literally just [picking] cotton for jews" https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709818 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jun/15/us-prison-workers-low-wages-exploited https://www.jstor.org/stable/1.1086/675300 https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2021/06/convict-leasing-system/
All Note Details