• WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I see it as a direct continuation of:

    Slavery->Sharecropping and Jim Crow->mass incarceration

    Slavery never ended. The name just changed to be more polite, with a fig leaf of freedom and free will. Additionally we realized two things:

    1. It’s more economical to hold slaves in large central facilities than dispersed.

    2. The best way to fight abolitionism is to convince the populace that the slaves deserve it.