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   Orion Ussner kidder (orionkidder@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 03:49:42 JST Orion Ussner kidder

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   • Cory Doctorow
   • dinozombie🌵🦇

   @dinozombie @pluralistic When slavery was officially abolished, the white majority in the US *scrambled* to replace it with various practices that would get them as close to reinstating slavery as possible: share-cropping, Jim Crow, and as you've already pointed out, forced labour via incarceration.

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     dinozombie🌵🦇 (dinozombie@metalhead.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 03:49:43 JST dinozombie🌵🦇

     • Cory Doctorow

     The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution explicitly permits slavery – forced labor without pay – for prisoners.

     holy shit TIL, thanks @pluralistic

     carl marks repeated this.