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- Convict_lease abstract "Convict leasing was a system of penal labor practiced in the Southern United States. Convict leasing provided prisoner labor to private parties, such as plantation owners and corporations such as the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. The lessee was responsible for feeding, clothing, and housing the prisoners.The state of Louisiana leased out convicts as early as 1844, but the system expanded all through the south with the emancipation of slaves at the end of the American Civil War in 1865. It could be lucrative for the states: in 1898 some 73% of Alabama's entire annual state revenue came from convict leasing.While northern states sometimes contracted for prison labor, the historian Alex Lichtenstein notes that,only in the South did the state entirely give up its control to the contractor; and only in the South did the physical \"penitentiary\" become virtually synonymous with the various private enterprises in which convicts labored.Corruption, lack of accountability, and racial violence resulted in \"one of the harshest and most exploitative labor systems known in American history.\" African Americans, mostly adult males, due to “vigorous and selective enforcement of laws and discriminatory sentencing,” made up the vast majority—but not all—of the convicts leased.The writer Douglas A. Blackmon described the system:It was a form of bondage distinctly different from that of the antebellum South in that for most men, and the relatively few women drawn in, this slavery did not last a lifetime and did not automatically extend from one generation to the next. But it was nonetheless slavery – a system in which armies of free men, guilty of no crimes and entitled by law to freedom, were compelled to labor without compensation, were repeatedly bought and sold, and were forced to do the bidding of white masters through the regular application of extraordinary physical coercion.U.S. Steel is among American companies who have acknowledged using African-American leased convict labor. The practice peaked around 1880, was formally outlawed by the last state (Alabama) in 1928, and persisted in various forms until it was abolished by President Franklin D. Roosevelt via Francis Biddle's \"Circular 3591\" of December 12, 1941.".
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- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink American_Civil_War.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Black_Codes_(United_States).
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Brushy_Mountain_State_Penitentiary.
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- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Category:Imprisonment_and_detention_in_the_United_States.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Category:Penal_imprisonment.
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- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Coal_Creek_War.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Dixie_County,_Florida.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Douglas_A._Blackmon.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Federal_Prison_Industries.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Francis_Biddle.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Franklin_D._Roosevelt.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Frederick_Douglass.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink John_P._Buchanan.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Leon_County,_Florida.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Lynching.
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- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink North_Georgia_(U.S._state).
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Penal_labor_in_the_United_States.
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- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Pulitzer_Prize_for_Public_Service.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Radical_Republican.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Reconstruction_Era.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Ruiz_v._Estelle.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Selma,_Rome_and_Dalton_Railroad.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Southern_United_States.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Tallahassee,_Florida.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Tennessee_Coal,_Iron_and_Railroad_Company.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Thomas_H._Ruger.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Thorsten_Sellin.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Trusty_system_(prison).
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink Turpentine.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink U.S._Steel.
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLink File:Convicts_Leased_to_Harvest_Timber.png.
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- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLinkText "Convict lease".
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLinkText "John S. Williams".
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLinkText "convict labor leasing system".
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLinkText "convict labor".
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLinkText "convict lease system".
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLinkText "convict lease".
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLinkText "convict leasing system".
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLinkText "convict leasing".
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLinkText "convict-lease".
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLinkText "convicts leased from the state".
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLinkText "convicts leased out".
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLinkText "convicts leased".
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLinkText "labor contracts".
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLinkText "leasing state prisoners out to private businesses".
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLinkText "practice of leasing prisoners to businesses".
- Convict_lease wikiPageWikiLinkText "the use of prisoners for contract-leased labor".
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- Convict_lease subject Category:Imprisonment_and_detention_in_the_United_States.
- Convict_lease subject Category:Penal_imprisonment.
- Convict_lease subject Category:Penal_labor_in_the_United_States.
- Convict_lease subject Category:World_Digital_Library_related.
- Convict_lease hypernym System.
- Convict_lease comment "Convict leasing was a system of penal labor practiced in the Southern United States. Convict leasing provided prisoner labor to private parties, such as plantation owners and corporations such as the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. The lessee was responsible for feeding, clothing, and housing the prisoners.The state of Louisiana leased out convicts as early as 1844, but the system expanded all through the south with the emancipation of slaves at the end of the American Civil War in 1865.".
- Convict_lease label "Convict lease".
- Convict_lease sameAs Q3561743.
- Convict_lease sameAs Convict_Leasing.
- Convict_lease sameAs Ενοικίαση_καταδίκων.
- Convict_lease sameAs 囚人貸出制度.
- Convict_lease sameAs m.0d7zqt.
- Convict_lease sameAs Q3561743.
- Convict_lease wasDerivedFrom Convict_lease?oldid=697938644.
- Convict_lease depiction Convicts_Leased_to_Harvest_Timber.png.
- Convict_lease isPrimaryTopicOf Convict_lease.