worse than you know
Jan. 30th, 2013 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdYou learn about Jim Crow in school, maybe, but it was worse than you probably know. C.f. The South's Shocking Hidden History: Thousands of Blacks Forced Into Slavery Until WW2: The horrifying, little-known story of how hundreds of thousands of blacks worked in brutal bondage right up to the middle of the 20th century. The author, a former Wall Street Journal bureau chief, won a Pulitzer in 2009 for the book he wrote on the topic. The linked article gives you a bit of an overview, though, and is worth reading.
When doing so, note how the convict-slave-labour system is being reinvented today, with the school-to-prison pipeline, and the privatisation of the incarceration system. Nothing, including slavery, is ever over, is it?
When doing so, note how the convict-slave-labour system is being reinvented today, with the school-to-prison pipeline, and the privatisation of the incarceration system. Nothing, including slavery, is ever over, is it?
