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Steven Soper

Mass Incarceration of Blacks Started Long Before the War on Drugs

In fact, America started imprisoning blacks en masse after the civil war.

May 25th, 2018

By Barry Godfrey and
Steven Soper

Mass Incarceration of Blacks Started Long Before the War on Drugs

Henry Minter was working as a farm laborer in Georgia in the 1870s when he met Mary Dotson, a young black servant girl. The couple never married – which would have been illegal at the time – but they stayed together until Henry’s death. Mary, who was left

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