After the Civil War, a new form of slavery took hold in the US and lasted more than 60 years. Associated Press reporters Margie Mason and Robin McDowell investigate the chilling history of how Southern states imprisoned mainly Black men, often for minor crimes, and then leased them out to private companies – for years, even decades, at a time.
At the state park that sits on the former site of the Lone Rock stockade, relics from the hellish prison are buried beneath the soil. Archeologist Camille Westmont has found thousands of artifacts, such as utensils and the plates prisoners ate off. She has also created a database listing the names of those sent to Lone Rock. A team of volunteers are helping her, including a woman reckoning with her own ancestor’s involvement in this corrupt system and the wealth her family benefited from.
The United States Steel Corporation helped build bridges, railroads and towering skyscrapers across America. But the company also relied on forced prison labor. After US Steel took over Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad in 1907, the industrial giant used prison labor for at least five more years. During that time, more than 100 men died while working in their massive coal mining operation in Alabama. U.S. Steel has misrepresented this dark chapter of its history.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell The Vaunted Race Pimping AP at its worst.
12tnob MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell Pay Us what you owe us
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell As usual not something we were ever taught in school … Only taught how great the confederate generals were… Total foolishness! …sad…
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell CUT THE CHECKS! STOP ANTIBLACK HATE!
GeorgiaWatts19 MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell The book and documentary Slavery by Another Name covers this topic.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell We know it and unless it leads to reparations what’s the use of rehashing it Black men were jailed if they stood still for loitering and if they were moving with no place to go with vagrancy✊🏽
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell They had to keep slavery going...the prison industrial complex is modern day slavery with free prison labor to bolster their corporate interests paying the inmates pennies to do jobs they do not qualify for on the outside. ACA3 EndIntenduredServitudein
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell ReparationsNow
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell There is no qustion that human rights were violated. In considering all of this, you should also consider where people would be if their ancestors had remained in Africa.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell Now do The Crime Bill.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell NRA was created so that Blacks and supporting Whites could defend themselves against Democrat white supremacy.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell More CRT backwash. Has zero impact today and very few companies used leased prisoners + most all of the prisoners were guilty. Next AP report: ASPCA bemoans use of mules to plow fields 100 years ago!
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell They continue to do this.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell Back in the good ole days
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell If you can't do the time......
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell So the Leftist AP wants to create turmoil by trying to pick the pockets of Americans over something they never did.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell American companies are not the only ones. Large companies in Europe and Germany used forced labor including captured jews before and during World War 2. The East India Company of the British Empire employed slave labor. Modern day sweat shops exists in China and elsewhere.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell Those democrats are some evil suckers
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell USA the purveyor of democracy . 🤣
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell libs can get at super weathly loot so they take it from working ppl and shovel guilt trips to ppl that didnt even get here til 30 to 40 years after the civil war
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell When did the Associated Press turn into an American History review?
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell Is it still news if it happened 150+ years ago and nobody alive had anything to do with it?
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell This is great. Next can you do a story on the slave trade needed to support the lithium mining in Africa/South America. I haven’t seen much from you guys on these present day ‘slave industries’. The 12 year old slaves are working today. Help them now!!!
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell It hasn’t stopped.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell So were poor whites.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell ... 'Leased' ...
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell William Friedkin, the director of The Exorcist, certainly had an interesting view about this, particularly with respect to the Klan. At 6:40
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell 100% democrats
BrianFreed1 MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell So. They privatized former-slave slave-labor.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell Race bating again? Slow news day....it's a Sunday.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell Thousands of White men too. Just sayin'..🐸🇺🇲
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell ::this content not available in Florida::
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell The cornerstone of the police force is hatred.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell You are late to the game - the book 'Slavery by another name' by douglasblackmon is all about this.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell Yep, Democrats did Horrible things to Black Men!
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell Sounds oddly familiar
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell As the footnote mentions, read “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II” by douglasblackmon
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell If you weren’t imprisoned imagine living in terror that this would happen to you and your family. Pure terrorism.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell Now THAT’S African American history that ALL Americans need to know.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell lol, also why road pirates rage, make as many candidates for basic labor pool as possible, criminal convictions keep them available for basic labor
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell when did this happen?
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell Watch out DeSantis will call ya woke
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell 1869 was a rough time…
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell Douglas Blackmon wrote the book on this in 2009. “Slavery by Another Name.” Excellent account.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell 250 years ago 😂😂
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell Its still going on. The 13th amendment says its legal. That is why Black people get arrested & jailed so much-mass incarceration supports the free or lost cost labor. Every prison in America was built by prisoners except 1 built by Quakers.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell You don't need to go back 150 years. Kamala Harris was doing it as DA in California.
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell This is a truth, that I realized as a teen, when I saw my first work gang, in prison clothes. My thoughts immediately went to free labor. In fact, I thought it was a good idea for those to pay back their crimes against society...when I was GOP minded. Now, I see the ruse in that
MargieMasonAP robinmcdowell Nothing like stoking the fire and the hatred that it evokes. Time to silence the slavery issue. It’s meaningless today.