Former American slaves were put back into virtual slavery after the Civil War
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Following the Civil War, systems such as convict leasing, debt peonage, and sharecropping trapped many freed African Americans in conditions of forced labor and extreme subjugation, effectively creating a form of virtual slavery.
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Wikipedia: American Civil War
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en.wikipedia.org: Convict leasing
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Details convict leasing as a forced penal labor system expanding after emancipation.
en.wikipedia.org: Slavery by Another Name
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Describes how systems like convict leasing and peonage meant slavery persisted into the 20th century.
en.wikipedia.org: Convict leasing
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Reiterates the expansion of convict leasing of Black individuals following the 1865 emancipation.
skeptics.stackexchange.com: Were many former American slaves put back into virtual slavery after the ...
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Confirms former slaves were arrested and put into slave labor through the 13th Amendment loophole.