Thomas Jefferson had the legal right to sell you, your wife, your children to the cotton plantations in Alabama or rice plantations in South Carolina. There was no guarantee that he would keep you at Monticello.
The coal miner in West Virginia had the legal right to quit the mine and move out of West Virginia. Something no slave could do.
The coal miner in West Virginia had the legal right to quit the mine and move out of West Virginia.
Neither happened in reality.
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