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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

reason.com/2024/04/24/she-only

Reason.com · Florida Bills Woman $127,000 After She Spent Only 10 Months Behind BarsBy Emma Camp
Grandpa Don RIP World

@blogdiva this is obscene. The whole concept is bad, but the billing for time not served HAS to be illegal. The sentence was incarceration, not a fine. State is piling on. ACLU should be fighting this.