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SLAVERY AND VOTER SUPPRESSION: The Prison Industrial Complex
By David Joseph Meister When Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, Southern secessionists saw a threat to the institution on which their wealth and social order depended: slavery. Their pecuniary interest in an involuntary workforce was inseparable from their commitment to White supremacy. They said so themselves. In its February 2, 1861, declaration of causes for secession, Texas asserted that…
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