How Black Free Labor was exploited with Prisons even after slavery ended/strong

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II was originally a book by Douglas A. Blackmon that tells the story of how black men and women were placed back into slavery conditions through the convict lease system used by state and local governments, white farmers, and corporations after the Civil War. The book highlights the little known fact that slavery did not in fact end with the Civil War; it simply morphed into a different form. [..]

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