The Only Way to Keep Slaves as Slaves

The Only Way to Keep Slaves as Slaves

The only way to keep slaves as slaves, especially those whom embraced their freedom after the Civil War was to convict them of some kind of crime, this was implemented on young Black boys and men, the 13th Amendment freed the slaves but it had a clause 'EXCEPT' in it, which stated that 'Slavery had been abolished 'EXCEPT' in a court of law where one is duly convicted of a crime, so you can imagine what it was like for our men back This is what you call institutional racism.