in 1898, fully 73% of Alabama's entire annual state revenue came from convict leasing
wow, that's a lot of slavery-with-one-extra-step
> Convict leasing was a system of forced penal labor which was historically practiced in the Southern United States and overwhelmingly involved African-American men.
Articles about vaccination and how the Golden Age helped the state of Florida to end convict-leasing. December,1923.
"For many decades, white elites in the South used the punishment system to transfer wealth, confiscate land, and preserve racial hierarchy through convict leasing—that is, criminalizing people so that their bodies could be forced to work for profit." yalelawjournal.org/forum/…
Dark Heritage in the New South: Remembering Convict Leasing in Southern Middle Tennessee through Community Archaeology link.springer.com/article…
TIL in 1898, some 73% of Alabama's entire annual state revenue came from convict leasing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con…
Rail company Norfolk Southern is pausing construction work on a site in northwest Atlanta after the city took legal action to stop the development of the land, which has a dark history through its association with Georgia’s convict leasing program. ajc.com/news/atlanta-news…
TIL The revenues derived from convict leasing (the system of state governments leasing prisoner labor to private parties, such as plantation owners etc) accounted for 73 percent of total state revenues in Alabama in 1898. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con…
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Post American civil war convict leasing became increasingly more popular, was this racial or economically motivated?
Fact check: Southern states used convict leasing to force Black people into unpaid labor usatoday.com/story/news/f…
The abolition of convict leasing in Alabama
Alabama abolished convict leasing in 1928. I found this old New York Times article on the topic.
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1928/07/01/94144845.html?pageNumber=14
It says the abolition campaign began in 1915. Wikipedia says that convict leasing provided Alabama with 73% of its state revenue in 1898. That's enormous! Yet 30 years later, Alabama ended convict leasing and did not go bankrupt. So what happened? I want to know the full story behind this, political and economic. How valuable was convict leasing to Alabama's coffers in 1915? In 1928? Who led the abolition movement?
Fact check: Southern states used convict leasing to force Black people into unpaid labor usatoday.com/story/news/f…
[Link] Post American civil war convict leasing became increasingly more popular, was this racial or economically motivated? reddit.com/r/AskHistorian…
After more than two years of research, a gruesome 2018 discovery in Texas is shining more light on a form of slavery in America that lasted 50 years after the Civil War... That camp was part of a state-sanctioned convict leasing system in Texas that lasted into the 1910s abc11.com/sugar-land-95-a…
The Dark Hidden Historical Past Convict Leasing in Sugarland, Texas Re-emerges texasmonthly.com/news/rem…
isitBullshit: the south was never actually punished after the civil war because president johnson pardoned confederate leadership and black people were put into convict leasing and sharecropping and have their rights still violated to this day?
Fact check: Southern states used convict leasing to force Black people into unpaid labor usatoday.com/story/news/f…
TIL in 1898, some 73% of Alabama's entire annual state revenue came from convict leasing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con…
Fort Bend County community activist, historian Reginald Moore dies at 60. He ha been striving for years to get recognition for the Old Imperial Farm cemetery that houses some bodies believed to be a part of the convict leasing system in Sugar Land, Texas houstonchronicle.com/news…
PBS - Slavery by Another Name (2012) - How Convict Leasing and sharecropping extended slavery for another 80 years [01:24:09] youtube.com/watch?v=te5je…
"Payday" is a new arrangement of a traditional Appalachian folk song about the Cross Mountain Mine disaster at Coal Creek, Tennessee on December 9, 1911, in which 84 lives were lost (including child miners) - also the site of the "Coal Creek War" of 1891 that abolished leasing convict labor to mines youtu.be/q3588SK4lGg
"Payday" is a new arrangement of a traditional Appalachian folk song about the Cross Mountain Mine disaster at Coal Creek, Tennessee on December 9, 1911, in which 84 lives were lost (including child miners) - also the site of the "Coal Creek War" of 1891 that abolished leasing convict labor to mines youtu.be/q3588SK4lGg
Was Convict Leasing A Continuation Of Slavery?
In The Shawshank Redemption, one of the characters jokingly refers to the use of convicts for outside construction projects as "slave labor" - and while that movie was set in the north and with a mixed race group of prisoners, in reality was it implicitly or explicitly understood as a continution of slavery in the south? What kind of industries would lease convict labor?
"Payday" is a new arrangement of a traditional Appalachian folk song about the Cross Mountain Mine disaster at Coal Creek, Tennessee on December 9, 1911, in which 84 lives were lost (including child miners) - also the site of the "Coal Creek War" of 1891 that abolished leasing convict labor to mines youtu.be/q3588SK4lGg
"Payday" is a new arrangement of a traditional Appalachian folk song about the Cross Mountain Mine disaster at Coal Creek, Tennessee on December 9, 1911, in which 84 lives were lost (including child miners) - also the site of the "Coal Creek War" of 1891 that abolished leasing convict labor to mines youtu.be/q3588SK4lGg
The Dollop #181 - Martin Tabert and Convict Leasing thedollop.libsyn.com/181-…
How Anti-Immigration Policies Are Leading Prisons to Lease Convicts as Field Laborers: Under lucrative arrangements, states are increasingly leasing prisoners to harvest food for American consumers at a rate not seen since Jim Crow. psmag.com/social-justice/…
How Anti-Immigration Policies Are Leading Prisons to Lease Convicts as Field Laborers: Under lucrative arrangements, states are increasingly leasing prisoners to harvest food for American consumers at a rate not seen since Jim Crow. psmag.com/social-justice/…
How Anti-Immigration Policies are Leading Prisons to Lease Convicts as Field Laborers: Under lucrative arrangements, states are increasingly leasing prisoners to harvest food for American consumers at a rate not seen since Jim Crow psmag.com/social-justice/…
Should we revive “slavery” or “convict leasing” on a large scale to fill these “illegal immigrant jobs” that Americans can but are unwilling to do and also drive off illegal immigrants since they are not supposed to be here doing those jobs anyway?".
HOW ANTI-IMMIGRATION POLICIES ARE LEADING PRISONS TO LEASE CONVICTS AS FIELD LABORERS Under lucrative arrangements, states are increasingly leasing prisoners to harvest food for American consumers at a rate not seen since Jim Crow. psmag.com/social-justice/…
[Book] [Needs digitizing] One Dies, Get Another Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928
Author: Matthew J. Mancini
ISBN-10: 1570030839
ISBN-13: 978-1570030833
A Fate Worse Than Slavery, Unearthed in Sugar Land. Bodies of sugar cane workers recently discovered in Texas reveal gruesome details about the convict leasing system nytimes.com/2018/10/27/op…
