I guess they're trying to overcompensate for years of brutal child slavery with kids working in textile mills, tobacco processing, agriculture, mines, and facto

I guess they're trying to overcompensate for years of brutal child slavery with kids working in textile mills, tobacco processing, agriculture, mines, and factories. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/hiring-out-of-the-enslaved/#:~:text=Employers%20expected%20children%20as%20young%20as%20five%20or%20six%20to%20contribute%20labor%20through%20small%20tasks%2C%20such%20as%20tending%20fires%20and%20small%20livestock%20or%20assisting%20enslaved%20adults. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/hiring-out-of-the-e...