Post #31604 by Lambo on the US Policy board

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And that’s how slavery returns to America. Might as well make them help pay for their own incarceration.

Peonage. And chain gangs ended in the 50s, but we can bring them back. Wait, aren't they still used here in Florida sometimes? Let the Midnight Special shone it's light on me...

Yet another rude awakening. We won the war but lost the reconstruction. Jim Crow. The KKK. They burned crosses in my home town. I think the odds are pretty good that one of my relatives was in the KKK. One was a Doctor in the Civil War.

We made up laws that were used against blacks to throw them in jail and then we could set them to work and make up for some of the lost slave labor by convict leasing. And it looks like we mostly turned a blind eye to it for along time. But some states can't get some things done without that work IIRC.

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