Suruthi

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1,385 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 Jun

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RedHanded · ShortHand: The Ku Klux Klan · 29 May 2026 podcast

I was actually listening to an interesting interview about this whole premise of like,

Slavery back then, yes, obviously the transatlantic slave trade was a very specific type of evil that was done during that time.

But slavery for all of human history up until the point that, you know, we're going to talk about, it was normal.

And there was obviously different levels of it.

Obviously, the idea now of any sort of slavery is abhorrent to our modern minds.

but you know indentured servitude even in this country you know like peasants who were living off the land so you had like your your lord and you worked for them and there's like you know the argument there of like of course it was horrible but like if you didn't live under a lord your life would be objectively even worse if you were just like out living in the wilderness it's not in any way like uh that was an okay way to be living but lots of arguments obviously like i said the transatlantic slave trade very very different to that

Mm hmm.

And I think, you know, the point the podcast was making was this idea of like when Europe, which was the first like place that we're like, OK, maybe this is barbaric.

It was also coming alongside progress that was meaning that we didn't need it anymore.

We weren't as labor intensive a part of the world.

So it was easier for people to get to the point where they were like, maybe this is barbaric and we shouldn't be doing this.

That's what you see here.

When the country or that part of the world doesn't need slave labor anymore because it can run efficiently without it is when you see a move away from it.

But in the South, that wasn't the case.

So they're really doubling down on it.

And like we said, very, very central to the birth of the KKK.

So when slavery was abolished in the US in 1865, the fragile men of the South did freak out.

It was a pretty significant hit to their mojo.

And they were very used to being able to delegate all of their grunt work.

So all across southern states, people saw the freeing of slaves as a threat to their jobs, and to their place in society, and inevitably, to their masculinity.

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