Ronald Sims English 101 Slavery by another name This documentary depicts the horrors and experiences by freed

African-Americans in the South during the post-civil war period. After the civil war, many African-Americans wanted to own their own land, fund their own schools, and sell their own products. Legislatives in the south made this possible for about a few years, until white resistance tried to uproot their dream. Many governments passed laws to keep Blacks in line. Many of the African-Americans who broke the laws were sent to prisons across the south. It took years until many rich white people found out that these prisoners were a good source of labor. Many prisoners, mostly Africans-American, were sent to private mining company by the labor administration in the south. This was called convict laboring. Many African-Americans were sent to prisons in a high rate. Many of them was charged on flimsy crimes and forged in the fact that African-Americans were a criminal race and unable to be civilized. The state legislatives revamped the laws that racism was a requirement in everyday life in the south. African-Americans were beaten, and sent to jail at a high rate. These were the justice of the south. The racist laws were upheld in a case Prisey v. Freguson. Whites in the south were steady using these laws to beat down the hopes of African Americans, like the denial of voting in the elections and the place they "belonged Some of them were charged with penal debts and were falsely accused of crimes. Since the courts were a bought out, many African-Americans lost. African-Americans were sent on farms to work experience harsh conditions and fallen victim to the conspiracy of peonage. Most were kept there by owners even after their debt was

paid off. They were beaten, raped, and killed. The prisoners wrote the president to free them from the new slavery. However, court cases were settled and the ring leaders were given light punishments. President Roosevelt gave patrons to the owners of these forced-labor camps. This deflated the prisoners and convicts who were falsely charged with crimes. I often wonder what went in the mind of the Whites in the south. After slavery, they should have just realized that this was unethical to treat people like property. Years later, those people who ancestors were part of the peonage conspiracy, were surprised by this because they did not know of what peonage was while in school. These results say a lot about education about post-Civil-war era. While my ancestors werent a part of this new form of slavery, I feel for the people who owned these innocent people for slave labor and the owners ancestors who thought that their ancestors were honest men who were self-made. If it were up to me, I would just either run away from the labor camps, or choose death. In retrospect to today, time really hasnt change to a point that we as Americas can just forgive and forget the post-civil-war or even the civil rights era.