You need to read some history if you think the Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in the USA. English, Irish, Italian and Chinese slavery in the USA continued well into the 20th century. My grandmother came to the USA from England in 1913 and worked as an indentured servant for six years to repay her sponsor, all with my toddler father in tow. I knew her and heard the stories first hand. I also heard the stories of my Irish sharecropper relatives whose lives were destroyed by Sherman despite the fact that they never owned slaves and never supported slavery. Unless you include these groups you simply cannot tell the “truth” about slavery in the USA.
It’s incorrect to state that indentured servants were the same as slaves. An indentured servant signed a contract to work for a period of time in exchange for something; often passage to America, clear a debt, etc. Once the terms of the contract was met the indentured servant was a free man.
That does not make your grandmother a slave.
Slaves are property. Your grandmother was not property. Your father did not become property because he was your grandmother's son.
If YOU had read some history, then YOU should know that the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the USA. Rather, the Emancipation Proclamation only ended slavery in the rebellious southern states who left the Union.
My Wife’s parents came from Hong Kong in the 60s worked and lived in back of a Chinese Restaurant as indentured servants for years before they learn they had rights.
One night her parents wise up and took their Children and left that life style. They started their own successful restaurant and purchase a house. Note that was without the help of the federal government.
I believe a lot of your Mexicans you see in the back of Chinese and Mexican restaurants are indentured.
Indentured India people running gas stations and convenience stores. There is a big corporation that runs small gas stations acorss the South manage by people they import from India.
IT industries import India people paying them lower wages. I saw a news report that states they get abuse and expected to work long hours. If they complain they get let go, then they have to find a new job in so many days or be deported back to India. Look at the suicide rates in silicone valley.
The modern day slavery is the exportation of illegal aliens from Central and South America for cheap wages. Illegal alien gets hurt on the job they do not file workman’s comp.
What party is supporting all of this?
There were no Italian slaves. The Padrone system was exploitative, but it wasn’t slavery. The only problems my Italian ancestors had when they came here were from the racist Irish who ran the cities that they settled in, hence why the Italians preferred voted for WASP Republicans in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Illinois
Sharecropping and indentured servitude are not slavery; they are labor in exchange for something.