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after #abolition many Black people who had nowhere to go, were charged rents by their former plantation owners if they didn't leave. if they didn't pay, they were either re-enslaved thru prison OR indentured into financial servitude.
when the numbers of indentured Black servants weren't enough, that's when poor migrant workers became key to this new form of renter slavery.
this is what GOP fascists want to bring back with #prisons & #farms
Florida Bills Woman $127,000 After She Spent Only 10 Months Behind Bars
Under Florida's "pay-to-stay" law, inmates are charged $50 for every day of their sentenceβincluding time they never spent incarcerated.Emma Camp (Reason Magazine)
Prisoner artwork on a cell wall at the abandoned Holmesburg Prison
Gallery:history: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/holmesburg-prison
#abandoned #art #photography #prisons
Gallery:history: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/holmesburg-prison
#abandoned #art #photography #prisons
Philadelphia's Abandoned Holmesburg Prison : A Dream of Release
Holmesburg Prison, Eastern State Penitentiary's more decayed and less accessible sister, was everything I hoped an abandoned prison would be. By Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America.www.abandonedamerica.us