Slavery by another name

[packman]

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" Under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these ostensible “debts,” prisoners were sold as forced laborers to coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries, and farm plantations. Thousands of other African Americans were simply seized by southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude. Government officials leased falsely imprisoned blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers, and dozens of corporations—including U.S. Steel—looking for cheap and abundant labor."


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/3/1831868/-A-book-that-made-me-physically-ill-Black-History-Month

[Submariner]

1. Full Version

https://www.pbs.org/video/slavery-another-name-slavery-video/

[zanana1]

2. I'm going to read that book.

We can't stay away from the truth of our history because it's harsh and ruthless.

[Karadeniz]

3. Wow

I've never heard of this, ever. Really, we owe reparations to both native Americans and African American s. The Germans paid reparations to Jews...I just thought, they killed as many Catholics and detractors as they did Jews. Did they pay reparations to those others?