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Debt Bondage- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the (Original Post) appalachiablue Jun 2015 OP
Tens of thousands of people were arrested, held against their will and sold and resold appalachiablue Jun 2015 #1

appalachiablue

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1. Tens of thousands of people were arrested, held against their will and sold and resold
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 06:57 PM
Jun 2015

by county Sheriffs and govt. officials to corporations and local farms looking for abundant, cheap labor. Their uncompensated, free labor brought millions of dollars into the treasuries of Southern governments on the state and local level for 80 years during Jim Crow. The federal government looked the other way at the atrocity.

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