Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay? Thank you so much.

Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share, because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. Do you guys remember how the slavery laws developed? I know if you didn't actually study

enslavement in school, either K through 12 or even pre-K, for those of you who went to an African

centered preschool or elementary school like my kids did. But if you didn't get a chance to

study this in your pre-college experience and you didn't study in your collegiate experience,

it might feel like a bit of a stretch to suggest that the way that the slavery laws developed are precisely related to what the

Department of Labor is doing right now. But bear with me for a minute. Give me just a moment,

and I will make this connection for you. Because if you do not understand the slavery roots of

the American relationship to labor and to work in this country,

then a lot of what you might think you're working to prevent, you're probably working to

reinforce. And as I said, give me a second and we'll dive into this firmly.

Give me a second and we'll unpack all of this.

Are you familiar with a notion called the Casual Slave Killing Act or the Casual Killing Act.

It goes by a variety of names, but it's basically a law or a type of law that was invented

and implemented in the American colonial legal system.

And the Casual Slave Killing Act was basically designed to solve a problem.

What do you do when white people are killing enslaved

Africans or free black people? How do you respond to that? Are you going to kill or jail a

white man for beating someone that he technically had property rights to because that person was

enlisted as his slave? Are you going to punish that white man for beating the enslaved property so much that that enslaved property died?

Are you going to kill the white women who, quite frankly, were murdering black babies and black people

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