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 dbluez rated 7 months ago -
Here is an excerpt from the book " Slavery By Another Name" by Douglas A. Blackmon.
It is amazing how little is seen in reference to this practice in modern media. Perhaps because there are still people living that were involved in it, or at least only one generation away. Or may...
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- javamanjoe rated 6 months ago
- SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME. Across the South, a new variety of slavery emerged after the Civil War. Laws were rewritten to criminalize African-American life. The judicial system was retooled to provide cheap forced labor to mines, farms, timber camps, turpentine makers, railroad builders and entrepreneurs large and small. Tens of thousands of men, the vast majority of them black, found themselves pulled back into slavery.
- Little-Wing rated 7 months ago
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An Age of Neoslavery
"Across the South, a new variety of slavery emerged after the Civil War. Laws were rewritten to criminalize African-American life. The judicial system was retooled to provide cheap forced labor to mines, farms, timber camps, turpentine makers, railroad builders and entrepreneurs large and small. Tens of thousands of men, the vast majority of them black, found themselves pulled back into slavery."
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* Today on NPR, I heard something that was disturbing to me -
the UN states that there are more slaves around the world today than in anytime in our History *
- dbluez rated 7 months ago
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Here is an excerpt from the book " Slavery By Another Name" by Douglas A. Blackmon.
It is amazing how little is seen in reference to this practice in modern media. Perhaps because there are still people living that were involved in it, or at least only one generation away. Or maybe it is because it still goes on, with a different look. We still imprison black men for petty things no white man would even see a judge for, and while we don't lease them out to factories, farms and mines, they still provide something that is necessary to corporation contracting the prison business from our collective governments, and that is bodies to watch over. This is beside the obvious reason of racism in the judicial system, and that it gives us a reason to build our police forces to a point where they are a back up for military forces.
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