Convict Leasing | Black History in Two Minutes or So
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- Опубликовано: 15 май 2019
- Although the 13th Amendment passed the Senate in 1864 and the House in 1865, the loopholes that exist continue to wreak havoc on the African-American population. To ensure the cotton industry would remain unaffected once the slaves were freed, convict leasing - a system that provides prison labor to plantation owners and private corporations - was implemented. The ramifications of this system continue to this day.
Those who were arrested - even on minor charges - were locked up and used as free labor while behind bars. This also signaled a shift in the racial makeup of prisoners as more African-Americans were targeted by law enforcement. In this series of Black History in Two Minutes or So, more light is shed on the capitalization of private prisons and how African-Americans are used to fuel the profits for America’s criminal justice system.
Executive Producers:
Robert F. Smith
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Dyllan McGee
Archival Materials Courtesy of:
Alabama Department of Archives and History Alamy Images Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos DON HOGAN CHARLES/The New York Times/Redux Getty Images Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Sadie Dayton Photography.
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Oovra Music
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It wasn’t the “aftermath of slavery.” It was then of British slavery. American slavery started with the “loophole” which isn’t a loophole. A hole is something you can’t see. You can see this allowance for slavery in the 13th. I read it. It stated right there plain as day. When you have an expressly written law that is stated, this one being constitutional, then you legally build on that constitutional law.
States like Mississippi did exactly that, starting in 1865. They made state and local laws based on the amendment non-loophole Exception clause. That’s why we have American slavery today, yesterday and for the last 158 years. This Exception Clause is a constitutional permission for states to constructed slavery laws, and it is was writing by pro-slavery Senator Henderson from Missouri who was a Harvard trained lawyer in 1863/4.
He knew exactly what he was doing and three of the 5 Senators agreed with him. A Loophole is an accident. This was put in on purpose over abolitionist Senator Sumner who was the one Senator who opposed it. Sumner wanted to completely abolish slavery because it was against inalienable rights. He lost. And this slavery was created in this permission clause. It was “brilliantly” labeled an exception, which it isn’t. It’s a permission. It’s not a loophole. It’s constitutional allowance.
The prison industrial complex exists to make money. To make money, they need people in jail.
This likely and unfairly targets black Americans throughout the US.
I would argue that it puts all people who are at or under the poverty line, at risk. The people with the fewest resources are more likely to get stuck in the system.
Thanks for this historical information. However, as academics they should specify dates.
They still doing this today 2023/24
Well, the fact that before the civil war most peoples in prison were white is not actually a proof. That’s because of course before the civil war most black peoples in Alabama were slaves and therefore if they committed a crime they wouldn’t have been sent to jail but lynched on the spot. To be more honest you should have compared the percentage of black peoples in prison in Alabama in 1880 to the percentage of black peoples in Alabama in 1880. It would have worked just fine.
The other thing you don’t say is that the actual criminal charge that was responsible for sending so many black peoples in jail was vagrancy. Because since they were almost all ex-slaves, without any qualifications, they were extremely poor and very likely somewhat homeless, so southern states (on purpose) passed laws to « control » them but in practice it was basically sending them back to their former masters.
In Alabama in 1850, 99% of inmates were white...in AL by 1880 85% of inmates were Black. - Dr. Khalil Muhammad
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