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History Of The Convict Leasing System

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The convict leasing system contain about 90% of black people as if barely no white men or women were breaking laws. The percentage of blacks was so high, because of the “Pig Laws”. Those laws had been used to target and accuse many blacks for supposedly owning money, stealing a pig, or not being able to keep a job that they were often restricted from. I don’t understand how those broken laws could had even be remotely compared to true felons that are murderers. If somebody was in the system of convicts it was even worse than the known slavery. The system was brutal that whipped, killed, hardly fed, mentally, and physically abused these people. They were even easier to replace, because of so many black people being thrown into the system. Making

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