Slavery’s abolition created a void filled by coercive systems replacing it.

Evidence

According to the sociologist Heather O’Connell, after slavery ended, it was replaced by “coercive systems of social and economic control in the U.S. South, such as sharecropping, lynching and Jim Crow laws, developed in response to the social and economic void created by the abolition of slavery.” Thus white supremacy continued to provide white Americans with social and economic control over black Americans long after slavery was declared illegal. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 270

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Slavery was replaced by coercive systems preserving white economic control (similarity 0.94)
• Slavery-like conditions persisted legally and forcibly after emancipation to block black wealth building (similarity 0.80)
• Slavery shape-shifted into sharecropping and convict leasing enforced by lynching. (similarity 0.79)
• Slavery did not end but evolved through later coercive labor systems (similarity 0.79)
• Abolition of US slavery relocated capital to colonial slave agriculture globally (similarity 0.78)