Black Voters in Louisiana Respond to the Rejected Amendment to End Slavery Exceptions, Including Prison Labor Described in GHRC Report
Black voters in Louisiana ‘embarrassed’ by state’s failure to pass anti-slavery amendment
Black voters in Louisiana are confused. Many are embarrassed. Some are angry. All seem to be concerned about how their state is being perceived after a constitutional amendment to eliminate slavery and forced indentured servitude failed to pass in the November election.
That may be, in part, because the lawmaker who authored the bill to allow the vote switched direction and worked to kill it.
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According to a report by the American Civil Liberties Union and University of Chicago Law School Global Human Rights Clinic, prisoners [in the Louisiana state penitentiary] earn between 2 cents and 20 cents an hour, with many working in the fields on crops like sugarcane, corn, soybeans and, yes, cotton.
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