Slavery never ended in America. As in literally there are still slaves picking cotton on some of the same physical plantation sites that have existed since before the civil war.
When you are born in state-manufactured poverty and convicted to a multi-year, life ruining sentence where you do forced labor over some bullshit law that the government designed specifically to arrest black people, that’s basically the same thing
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Look up convict leasing, which was the more-obvious precursor to this slightly more concealed system