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"Growing Chains": Prison Agriculture and Capitalism
vendredi 27 janvier 2023, 20:46 , par BoingBoing
Before there were prisons, there were plantations that held people captive andw enslaved. Before enslaved people freed themselves and then were emanicipated, the prison population was almost entirely white. After the Civil War, that was no longer the case as Black Codes and, later, Jim Crow laws ensured that the incarcerated populations would not be over-determined by white convicts. — Read the rest
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