> [!infobox] <s class="aside-in"><em>mentioned in 1 evergreen</em></s> #### [[Slavery became more cruel after the civil war]] Black people that were arrested based off of [[black codes]] would then be pushed into [[debt peonage]] which was slavery by another name. > [!wikipedia] [convict leasing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict%20leasing) > > While states of the Northern United States sometimes contracted for prison labor, the historian Alex Lichtenstein notes that "only in the South did the state entirely give up its control to the contractor; and only in the South did the physical "penitentiary" become virtually synonymous with the various private enterprises in which convicts labored. > "Corruption, lack of accountability, and racial violence resulted in "one of the harshest and most exploitative labor systems known in American history." ### <hr class="footnote"/> **Status**:: #EVER/SPROUT *edited 7:35 AM - July 08, 2022* **Topics**:: [[convict leasing]] #### References ![[video - The Part of History You've always skipped neoslavery#Debt Peonage]]