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Those convicted under Black Code laws could be leased out to do work, providing huge incentives to criminalize and incarcerate Black people. From 1850 to 1870, the percentage of non-white prisoners in Alabama went from 2% to 74%. At least 90% of prison laborers were Black. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 7, 2019 Hibernated

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With the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, slavery was abolished and Black men got the right to vote. However, an exception in the 13th Amendment still allows for slavery as punishment for a crime. This exception led to "Black Code" laws that essentially criminalized Black life. — PolitiTweet.org

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After incarceration, the next step was felony disenfranchisement. In South Carolina, a newspaper said that whites needed to avoid being swept away at the polls by the Black vote. In Alabama, manipulating the ballot was justified to avoid the "menace of Negro domination." — PolitiTweet.org

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