Slavery is private service.
#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-25 11:02 AM | Reply | Flag:
The US govt retains its sole monopoly on slavery.
Meet The New Boss.
Same As The Old Boss.
(Some Whites will look you dead in the eye and say the new boss isn't racist, but that's another story.)
Convict Leasing
Convict leasing was a system of forced penal labor that was practiced in the Southern United States, where private individuals and corporations could lease labor from the state in the form of incarcerated people, nearly all of whom were Black.
The state of Louisiana leased out convicted people as early as 1844.[1] The system expanded throughout most of the South with the emancipation of enslaved people at the end of the American Civil War in 1865.[2] The practice peaked about 1880 and persisted in various forms until gradually phased out following Francis Biddle's "Circular No. 3591" of December 12, 1941. Whilst not having been explicitly abolished, the practice became politically untenable. As a result other forms of prison labour remain legal in the United States, under the Thirteenth Amendment's penal exemption clause.
The system was highly lucrative for both the lessees and state governments.[2] For example, in 1898, 73 percent of Alabama's annual state revenue came from convict leasing,[3] whilst contractors were able to lease people at costs as low as $9 a month.[4][5] Corruption, lack of accountability, and violence resulted in "one of the harshest and most exploitative labor systems known in American history".[6] African Americans, mostly adult males, due to "vigorous and selective enforcement of laws and discriminatory sentencing", comprised the vast majority, though not all, of the convicted people leased.[7]
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