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"Some southern states even have prisons on the grounds of former slave plantations." To increase the horror of this- some southern states have prisons on the g
by SolaceQuantum 7y ago
"Some southern states even have prisons on the grounds of former slave plantations."
To increase the horror of this- some southern states have prisons on the grounds of former slave planations, whose majority black prison population works the field of said plantations for less than a dollar an hour.
- dragonwriter 7y agoThat's not exactly just a horrific coincidence; the prison labor system was adopted as a direct continuation of slavery in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, exploiting the explicit exception for penal slavery in the 13th Amendment.