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The Convict Leasing Forced Labor System (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago by octopus_ink@lemmy.ml to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/11237867

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[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 42 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

This literally happened en masse after slavery was abolished in the South. They would just charge black people for minor offenses (e.g., "looking at a white woman"), jail them, and lease them to middle-class landowners who treated them worse than slaves. This country was built on slave labor and the legacy of slavery still continues to this day.

[–] MantisTobogganMD@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

and they teach us in school (ohio) that it’s totally great and makes sense that slavery is legal for prisoners. they make no mention of the record our. nation has for jailing people on bullshit charges.

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