One part of neoslavery, “convict leasing,” was the sentencing of prisoners to hard labor or to fine them outrageously, and they were leased out to commercial interests such as farms, coal mines, turpentine production plants, lumber and railroad camps.
Neoslavery is a term to describe a whole range of ways in which all across the Southern United States in the late 19th century and deep into the 20th century millions of African-Americans found themselves in a form of de facto slavery and involuntary servitude. Blackmon, author of Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, is interviewed in Newsweek this week:Ĭan you explain the concept of “neoslavery” and the “convict labor system”?
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