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<span style="font-style: italic">Derek,
Following up on a post from the other day on the failure of the Thirteenth Amendment to <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 14pt">'abolish' slavery</span></span> by including <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 14pt">"except as punishment for crime."</span></span>
na-tion-al-ize
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -ized; -iz·ing
1 : to make national
2 : to remove from private ownership and place under government
control
An investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal, won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for his book "Slavery By Another Name", and in it he describes how normal human behaviors associated minorities were criminalized in order to re-enslave newly freed Black Americans.
Sheriffs and other officials then sold or leased the prisoners to owners of mines, sawmills, farms, and factories.
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Tragically, slavery did not end with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 nor with the end of the War in 1865. During the period of Reconstruction, when federal law protected the rights of freed slaves, racial violence was constrained. Upon the withdrawal of Federal troops after 1876, however, many white Southerners blamed former slaves for the harsh economic conditions in the region.</span>
Following up on a post from the other day on the failure of the Thirteenth Amendment to <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 14pt">'abolish' slavery</span></span> by including <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 14pt">"except as punishment for crime."</span></span>
na-tion-al-ize
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -ized; -iz·ing
1 : to make national
2 : to remove from private ownership and place under government
control
An investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal, won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for his book "Slavery By Another Name", and in it he describes how normal human behaviors associated minorities were criminalized in order to re-enslave newly freed Black Americans.
Sheriffs and other officials then sold or leased the prisoners to owners of mines, sawmills, farms, and factories.
Video:
Tragically, slavery did not end with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 nor with the end of the War in 1865. During the period of Reconstruction, when federal law protected the rights of freed slaves, racial violence was constrained. Upon the withdrawal of Federal troops after 1876, however, many white Southerners blamed former slaves for the harsh economic conditions in the region.</span>
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