![]() Then they would tell these men that their only hope would be to let this white man pay their fine and then they could work it off. They would arrest black men for not having any money in their pockets thus being "vagrants" and fine them 20 dollars. ![]() ![]() This was a money making venture for sheriffs and judges in the South. For example a white man found riding the rails was sentenced to 10 days labor while a black man would be sentenced to 2 years or more for the same offence. What this book does is document the so called convict workers and how the majority of convicts were blacks and treated much differently than whites for similar crimes. I am not saying it was only in the Southern United States as people are racist all over and a lot of other states made it impossible for blacks to feel safe in those areas. While I have always thought that the South treated blacks differently than other parts of the United States, I never dreamed it was worse than ever for them until after World War II. ![]() This was an eye opening experience for me. ![]()
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