<s class="aside-in"><em>mentioned in 2 topics, 4 evergreens, 1 source</em></s> #### <s class="topic-title">[[convict leasing]]</s> > [!wikipedia] [convict leasing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict%20leasing) > > Convict leasing was a system of forced penal labor which was historically practiced in the Southern United States and overwhelmingly involved African-American men. Recently, a form of the practice (which draws voluntary labor from the general prison population) has been instituted in the Western United States. In the earlier forms of the practice, convict leasing provided prisoner labor to private parties, such as plantation owners and corporations (e.g. Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, Chattahoochee Brick Company). The lessee was responsible for feeding, clothing, and housing the prisoners. > > The state of Louisiana leased out convicts as early as 1844, but the system expanded all through the South with the emancipation of slaves at the end of the American Civil War in 1865. > > The writer Douglas A. Blackmon described the system: "It was a form of bondage distinctly different from that of the antebellum South in that for most men, and the relatively few women drawn in, this slavery did not last a lifetime and did not automatically extend from one generation to the next. But it was nonetheless slavery – a system in which armies of free men, guilty of no crimes and entitled by law to freedom, were compelled to labor without compensation, were repeatedly bought and sold, and were forced to do the bidding of white masters through the regular application of extraordinary physical coercion." > > The practice peaked around 1880, was formally outlawed by the last state (Alabama) in 1928, and persisted in various forms until it was abolished by President Franklin D. Roosevelt via Francis Biddle's "Circular 3591" of December 12, 1941. > ##### ^dataviews > [!dataview]+ Related unlinked notes > > - [[Slavery became more cruel after the civil war]] > - [[Slavery became much cheaper after the Civil War]] > - [[The last American slave wasn't freed till 1942]] > [!dataview]- Other unlinked mentions > > - [[video - The Part of History You've always skipped neoslavery]] > - [[black codes]] > - [[The myth of black criminality began years before the war on drugs]] #### Discussion ![[video - The Part of History You've always skipped neoslavery#Convict Leasing]]