Our captains of industry have never forgiven society for taking away their preferred slave labor options.
Sinister bastards, aren't they?
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Prison labor is an explicit exception to the constitutional prohibition on slavery. Presumably, southern state senators had a hand in crafting that exception.
Their peers crafted state criminal justice systems around finding their Black citizens guilty of a slew of special purpose crimes, to populate state prisons and their prison labor systems, which were quite lucrative. And still are.
Prison labor is an explicit exception to the constitutional prohibition on slavery. Presumably, southern state senators had a hand in crafting that exception.
Their peers crafted state criminal justice systems around finding their Black citizens guilty of a slew of special purpose crimes, to populate state prisons and their prison labor systems, which were quite lucrative. And still are.
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