Even slavery is still around.

while vilifying single Black mothers as “welfare queens”?

You forgot the "best" part: poor people renting apartments end up subsidizing wealthier people living in single-family homes, because suburban sprawl doesn't generate enough tax revenue per acre to fund the infrastructure and services it consumes. The white middle-class bigots doing the vilifying are, themselves, the real welfare queens!

Yeah, wtf. Martin Luther King got shot in 68. They just forgot to tell him that all is well for 14 years?

there aren't even really extra steps considering slavery is perfectly legal in prisons according to the constitution

I was going to comment something along these lines with the war on drugs, but legal slavery for imprisoned persons is a huge part of why the war on drugs was pursued and persists.

And after that, VRA, loving vs Virginia, fair housing act. Ending segregation was a gradual process that, by many metrics, still isn’t complete, but any date before 1964 or 1968 is a big fat lie.

My ex's family would talk about what they'd do to a black person if one ever stepped foot on their property. Within the last 10 years btw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown%2C_Virginia

In August 1619, the first recorded slaves from Africa to British North America arrived at present-day Old Point Comfort, near the Jamestown colony, on a British privateer ship flying a Dutch flag.

It was when enslaved African people were first brought to Jamestown. Exactly when the start is more broadly is kind of harder to say since some things are more disputed

The arrival of the first captives to the Jamestown Colony, in 1619, is often seen as the beginning of slavery in America—but enslaved Africans arrived in North America as early as the 1500s.

https://www.history.com/articles/american-slavery-before-jamestown-1619

This is a dumb take. The horrors of capitalism aren't the same as the horrors of slavery.

This is very inaccurate. Slavery is not dependent on the level of physical torture inflicted, it is entirely based on whether or not you are forced to work without "adequate" pay. Even in chattel slavery, there were different classes within the enslaved like house slaves and field slaves. Slaves in poorer houses where there were only a few often were treated better than those on plantations, it all came down to expendability.

Comparing a white man, who would be of the most privileged of those arrested, that was just taken in (this is a mugshot) and comparing it to a lifelong enslaved black man person only highlights that your presentation is heavily skewed.

While the Brits outlawed slavery around 1830s for themselves, they had no problem loading slaves onto their ships and smuggling them to the Americas for a good while after. Plus they openly supported the Confederacy throughout the Civil War to keep the cotton rolling in. And of course we don't need to mention colonialism that lasted until after WW2 now, do we? Of course the French, Dutch, Spanish, and Germans also colonized every inch of some else's dirt to exploit them back to the Stone Age. And there was little hesitation to kill any and all that objected the "civilizing" effect of European influence.

And slavery is ongoing even as we speak in certain parts of this world. But we do nothing and care little about that. As long as they keep it on the down low we need not be overly concerned.

What is your point exactly?

I know you are probably not trying to sound like an apologist for fucking slavery, but I’m coming up empty on alternative hypotheses.

Ah yes, my favorite Geographic location...Islam

All slavery is bad, but not all slavery is equivalent. This is specifically a timeline of chattel slavery and its lingering impacts (i.e. lack of civil and voting rights), in the United States.

Chattel slavery required the construction of our modern ideas about race, in order to justify the keeping of people as chattel based on their skin color.

Slavery in Roman Europe, meanwhile, was more akin to indentured servitude, with the expectation that enslaved people would eventually become citizens.

This arbitrary timeline doesn’t help

The point, which should be abundantly obvious, is how recent race based chattel slavery being ended is, and how it was present throughout the history of the US.

The fact is that the US was built on race based chattel slavery. The US is fundamentally structured on racial hierarchy, with Black individuals existing under White ones. This has been legally codified for the bulk of the US’s lifespan, and is a foundational part of the way the US is structured.

This could be similarly said about Brazil, which was also organized around race based chattel slavery, with Europeans importing slaves from Africa there as well.

“Europe” or “Islam” are irrelevant and too broad to be useful terms for historical analysis or at all relevant here.

It’s not arbitrary, it’s merely the scope of slavery and its effects in the United States. Do you get mad when people don’t talk about the Manchu Dynasty when discussing Victorian English tea consumption?

Dog whistle alert