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minus-squarenehal3m@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-21 month agoI think that’s a rule from the 1870’s mostly aimed at preventing black people from voting.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoYep, in combination with “vagrancy” laws. Here’s how the scheme worked: Refuse to hire blacks for anything more than “might as well still be slavery” wages. Arrest unemployed blacks for “vagrancy.” Re-enslave them (see “except as punishment for crime” clause of the 14th Amendment) and disenfranchise them as a bonus.
I think that’s a rule from the 1870’s mostly aimed at preventing black people from voting.
Yep, in combination with “vagrancy” laws.
Here’s how the scheme worked:
Refuse to hire blacks for anything more than “might as well still be slavery” wages.
Arrest unemployed blacks for “vagrancy.”
Re-enslave them (see “except as punishment for crime” clause of the 14th Amendment) and disenfranchise them as a bonus.