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al Asaad · 03-24-2008, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by The_Heretic

The prison chain gang system from the 1860's on up to the 1930's was just slavery in another form.

BULLSHIT!
Norht American Slavery for Africans was for life: the few exceptions noted.
Worse, as property, an African slave could be killed by his master.
Worse still, an African more often than not, could and many times did lose their families to the slave auction block.

Prisoners, excepting those commited for life without parole, could always hold out the hope they will be released, and in good time to start a new life.
Not so for Africans "imprisioned" as North American chattel.

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Black convicts would be officially issued a sentence short enough to qualify for the chain gangs [then have it lengthened by dubious penalties regardless how well behaved they were].

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Meanwhile white convicts would get- again officially, sentences too long to qualify and then get out on VERY early release on good behavior. Occasionally white inmates went on the chain gangs, but the vast majority were Black. And it's not until a white chain gang inmate reported the physical abuses as his reason for escaping that the practice was halted.

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See, unlike slaves prison laborers could be abused to the point of being mamed or killed without consequence to those contracting with the prisons for labor.

You are certifiably insane.

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And, lest we forget, that slavery alone isn't why many Black citizens feel resentment and agrer toward whites.

Duh.