Convict leasing was a system of forced penal labor practiced in the Southern United States, in which private individuals and corporations could lease labor from the state in the form of incarcerated people, nearly all of whom were Black.
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Convict leasing was a system of forced penal labor that was practiced in the Southern United States, where private individuals and corporations could lease labor from the state in the form of incarcerated people, nearly all of whom were Black.
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