Orlando Patterson got tired of this shit 40 years ago, how are you nincompoops on the Ca$happ left still letting this nonsense flap out of your gums

Calling slaves "property" is a meaningless statement with no distinction; until the late 1970s, you could make the argument that professional athletes - all the way up to being stores of value for team owners - were also property

"They were literally property. They were not human"

Who told you these are mutually exclusive categories?

What really worries me is some of these people have bullied their peers into silence while they do serious damage with their un-researched bullshit frameworks based on nothing but their own feelings.

Anyway.

This conversation was settled decades ago

Enslaved people were people

Enslaved people are people.