Black Texans formed ninety percent of leased railroad convict labor in 1867.

Evidence

In Texas in 1867, for example, black Americans made up roughly one-third of those in the state penitentiary but almost 90 percent “of those leased out for railroad labor.” — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 277

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• SHARE: Sharply concrete statistic for someone writing on the convict-leasing system; the 1/3 vs 90% gap exposes the racial targeting.