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Old Black Joe's STILL pickin cotton only in present day, YOU are JOE.
May he own things?
More precisely, is he permitted other than conditional use of things? For instance, that which he may think of as “his” home. If it is in fact “his,” then surely
that means no one else has legal claim to it and cannot take it away
from him once he has paid the original seller in full. Ask him about the
large payments he must make to others every year, forever, in order to
be allowed to remain on “his” property. Remind him that plantation
slaves also had homes – in the sense that they were allowed conditional
use of dwellings. Dwellings ultimately owned by someone else. The slaves
were permitted to use these dwellings so long as their labor provided enough return to the true owners
of the dwelling. A slave who refused to work – who declined to make
payments in the form of his labor then (and tax payments now) would soon
discover who the true owner of “his” dwelling really was.
Just as today
Old Black Joe's STILL pickin cotton only in present day, YOU are JOE.
May he own things?
More precisely, is he permitted other than conditional use of things? For instance, that which he may think of as “his” home. If it is in fact “his,” then surely
that means no one else has legal claim to it and cannot take it away
from him once he has paid the original seller in full. Ask him about the
large payments he must make to others every year, forever, in order to
be allowed to remain on “his” property. Remind him that plantation
slaves also had homes – in the sense that they were allowed conditional
use of dwellings. Dwellings ultimately owned by someone else. The slaves
were permitted to use these dwellings so long as their labor provided enough return to the true owners
of the dwelling. A slave who refused to work – who declined to make
payments in the form of his labor then (and tax payments now) would soon
discover who the true owner of “his” dwelling really was.
Just as today