Slavery-like conditions persisted legally and forcibly after emancipation to block black wealth building

Evidence

Part II catalogs the harms experienced by black people after chattel slavery ended. It describes the many ways in which slavery-like conditions were maintained, both legally and by force, to thwart black wealth building and progress. From the labor exploitation of sharecropping, convict leasing, and sundown towns, to lynching that resulted in black property being transferred to white lynchers, to the economic exploitation of Jim Crow’s “separate but equal” system of racial subordination, to the use of eminent domain, and finally to the so-called War on Drugs and the school-to-prison pipeline, black Americans have long been thwarted in creating economic security and building intergenerational wealth. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 50

Categorization

• XREF: Lists the specific mechanisms (sharecropping, convict leasing, sundown towns, lynching, eminent domain) an earlier chapter or the reader’s prior reparations reading would have individually catalogued; useful as a consolidated checklist. — connects to: Formal legal inclusion preserved incumbent control of incorporation criteria across slavery, colonialism, and apartheid. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 114