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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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Convict leasing was the souths replacement for slavery. You could arrest a black person for anything after the civil war (that's changed right?), including for not having a job or a home. So instead of buying slaves the state created them from freed people by throwing them into prison and then leasing them back to the former slaveholders. It didn't fall out of fashion until the civil rights era. Guess the anti-civil rights era is bringing it back.