Perhaps a little more relevantly, though not as recently,
>It is estimated that at the beginning of the 20th century, up to 40% of blacks in the [United States] South were trapped in peonage.
...a number that, to my limited knowledge, remained at a steady level, particularly in Alabama, up until Bailey v. Alabama in 1911, (which abolished the state's illegal and loophole-y neo-slavery provisions), and after that did not decrease significantly until the signing of Circular 3591 on December 1941, which led to a rapid-fire series of arrests and prosecutions, yadda yadda, last black slave freed in October of 1942. Ignoring modern, more or less color-blind human trafficking, of course.
Very interesting topic, especially if you ignore the happy ending and remember that segregation persisted until 1964, and its effects persists to this day.
MatiusX t1_iy979lc wrote
Reply to comment by wheresmattynow in TIL, that by 1860, there were nearly 4 million people enslaved in the United States. by MookieV
Perhaps a little more relevantly, though not as recently,
>It is estimated that at the beginning of the 20th century, up to 40% of blacks in the [United States] South were trapped in peonage.
...a number that, to my limited knowledge, remained at a steady level, particularly in Alabama, up until Bailey v. Alabama in 1911, (which abolished the state's illegal and loophole-y neo-slavery provisions), and after that did not decrease significantly until the signing of Circular 3591 on December 1941, which led to a rapid-fire series of arrests and prosecutions, yadda yadda, last black slave freed in October of 1942. Ignoring modern, more or less color-blind human trafficking, of course.
Very interesting topic, especially if you ignore the happy ending and remember that segregation persisted until 1964, and its effects persists to this day.