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Another slave, albert, had wed, and left for good in the middle of the first picking time after the destruction of the waramid the chaos and uncertainty when no one could be sure slavery had truly ended. A huge system of forced, unpaid labor, mostly affecting southern black men, that lasted until world war ii. For those who think the conversation about race or exploitation in america is over, they should read douglas blackmons cautionary tale, slavery by another name. Bledsoe pleading guilty in federal court in mobile, alabama, on october, 1941, to a charge of peonage for holding a back man named martin thompson against his will.
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