Slavery by Another Name*: The Convict Lease System (1865-1877)

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There should be two million thumbs up by now. Your presentation is talking about ending American Slavery under the 13th Amendment used deliberately to put freed black men and women in convict leasing, forced labor, coerced labor. No matter the name, it is clear what the name should be, slavery, as it’s state right there in black and white in the constitution. Just rewrite in your mind: “Except for convicts who can be slaves or involuntary servants, for everyone else slavery is over.” Or “Everyone in America is free and not slaves, except for duly convicted felons who are slaves.” Tennessee Senator John B. Henderson, a U.S. Senator from a slave state, in 1864, voted to put the exception clause in the constitution. He was a Harvard trained pro-slavery confederate allowed into Congress when it was taken over. Laws to make felons out of freed blacks were made in 1865, right away. Later those laws were amended to take the word “negro” and “mulatto” out, but the intent and practice remained. Only until 2023. That law never stops once it’s made and put into the constitution. It not a loophole. A hole is something you can’t see. It is stated clearly. It is thus a constitutional allowance that every state can have. And now every state does.