'Texas still has incarcerated people picking cotton even at a net loss to the state.' This OpEd calls for an end to the 13th Amendment's exception that allows for legalized slavery. WorthRises
And as people suffered — and died — states profited from these lease arrangements. By the late 1800s, some Southern states wereThe James Prison Camp, which later became the Louisiana State Penitentiary, was one of these labor camps., after the native country of the enslaved people who toiled on the land before the Civil War, much of the 18,000-acre plantation was once owned by one of the largest slave traders in the U.S., Franklin and Armfield.
In 1880, after Isaac Franklin’s death, his widow sold the plantation to Samuel Lawrence James, who had a lease with Louisiana to house its incarcerated population in exchange for the profits from their labor. James went on to sublease the incarcerated people to private corporations building levees and railroads.
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