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Centuries Of Racist Oppression Culminating In Mass Incarceration
AFRICANGLOBE - Over the years, the government declared and waged war on Black communities: In the 1800s, it was a war on unemployed “vagrants,” where countless so-called newly freed slaves were incarcerated in order to re-enslave them under the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; in the 1970s and 1980s, it was a war on crime, and thousands of Blacks would be criminalized; in the 1980s and 1990s the war on drugs would be used to imprison Black people at alarming rates
