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Convict leasing in the Alabama coal mines
1875
Jefferson County, Alabama
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Alabama arrested Black men on vagrancy charges and leased them to the coal mines, which paid the state directly. Death rates in some camps exceeded a third a year, the profits funded state government, and Alabama was the last state to abolish the practice, in 1928.
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