Today in labor history, June 30, 1928: Alabama outlaws the leasing of convicts to mine coal, a practice that had been in place since 1848. In 1898, 73 percent of the state’s total revenue came from this source; 25 percent of all African-American leased convicts died.
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history of the prison-industrial complex.
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When they could no longer use cotton as an excuse, they made laws that put them in jail and kept them enslaved anyway.
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