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If You Missed It, Little Known Black History Facts, Originals
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Erica L. Taylor, The Tom Joyner Morning Show
After the Civil War ended, the prison system in the former Confederate states was under pressure to figure out how to house convicts. Most of their prisons had been destroyed in the war. As an answer to the problem, Southern states invented the convict lease system. In this new system, convicts would be leased out […]
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