# Are there any pro-slavery advocates active in the US today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 4, 2010, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-pro-slavery-advocates-active-in-the-us-today/531243 "2010-03-04T04:37:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-pro-slavery-advocates-active-in-the-us-today/531243/21 "2010-03-04T20:36:31Z")
Wow, scooped by 2 minutes! ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-pro-slavery-advocates-active-in-the-us-today/531243/22 "2010-03-04T20:50:37Z")
A slave is essentially just someone who can’t quit and can’t stop working. Work gangs at prisons, by that definition, would be slaves. There have been advocates of making it so that welfare was dependent on working. This would, again, be akin to slavery. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-pro-slavery-advocates-active-in-the-us-today/531243/23 "2010-03-04T21:46:26Z")
I once heard Randall Terry of Operation Rescue interviewed on Teri Gross’s Fresh Air. He advocated all of the points from the Christian Reconstructionists as posted by friend **Briget Burke** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-any-pro-slavery-advocates-active-in-the-us-today/531243.md?page=1)