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A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote

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243 points rcarmo | 3 comments | 21 Oct 24 21:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.407s | source
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even_639765[dead post] ◴[22 Oct 24 11:04 UTC] No.41913104[source]▶
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1. dghf ◴[22 Oct 24 12:42 UTC] No.41913653[source]▶
Haiti, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia and Greece all abolished slavery before the UK did.
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2. detruzs ◴[22 Oct 24 12:58 UTC] No.41913782[source]▶
Maybe. But they are not necessarily doing as good a job enforcing it.

https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/map/

3. even_639765 ◴[22 Oct 24 15:12 UTC] No.41915093[source]▶
Does this undermine my point ?Or underline it? For the first 5,000 years of human civilization, slavery was an accepted institution by all peoples everywhere.