maybemaybenot -> RE: Girl in the box (2/3/2006 4:54:35 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Chaingang [ At the same time the facts as laid out were very much in the way of he said/she said except that it was two to one. I saw plenty of signals that these two women were free to leave any time. They went out drinking and carousing without him for christ's sake! One carried on an affair. He forced them to do these things...? Seems like plenty of freedom to me. Chaingang: I was a prosecution witness in a federal involuntary servitude <slavery > case about ten years ago. Interestingly enough, one of the defense arguements was very similar to what you have said. No locks on the doors, not tied up or restrained, went on outings with one of her captors etc. The problem with that defense is the legal definition of involuntary servitude or slavery. Which is as follows : INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE & PEONAGE - a condition of compulsory service or labor performed by one person, against his will, for the benefit of another person due to force, threats, intimidation or other similar means of coercion and compulsion directed against him. < from lectlaw.com > If you apply your terms to what constitutes slavery/involuntary servitude, the Plantation slaves were not slaves either. There were no locks on the cabin, they often traveled with their masters, and even carried on sexual relationships with them. What kept them true slaves, is the fear, the force, the intimadation. I have been involved with an anti slavery group for about ten years and each and every defense case has tried to incorporate that same theory into their defense, so far it has not been " bought " by the jury. Each prosecutor has used a variation of the plantation slaves to rebutt. mbmbn
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