Post-slavery systems transformed rather than ended the oppression of black Americans

Evidence

If you are thinking that we need to get over all this history, as terrible as it was, because things are so much better now—think again. Yes, things are better now; however, many of us are still lugging around baggage forced on us by the systems of oppression instituted after slavery was abolished. Ending slavery did not end its legacy. It simply transformed slavery into different methods of oppressing black Americans. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 430

Categorization

• DEFINE: This states the chapter’s core continuity thesis — ‘transformed, not ended’ — which Brown uses to bridge the chattel-slavery era to the present.
• XREF: connects to: Rising black urbanization and wars reversed assimilationist commitment — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1467; Rushdoony equated welfare-state programs with slavery of Black Americans. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 461; Black institutional separatism aimed at transforming, not escaping, America — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 245