acre plantation that had people that were leased out or bought out of the court system like jackson morrison. it had black women that were leased out to him as the runner of one of the prisons of georgia and it had people that were supposedly free laborers, sharecroppers so on this very space you had every example of the re-fabrication of black owned freedom and what she says president roosevelt is, you need to do something about this situation. she ended up working in the same plantation because the owner of it, she worked like her husband that it would go toward the ending of his slavery sentence and in actuality, none of the time that she worked was counted toward a sentence. they extended it out and he ended up staying there and being whipped with a plantation with and during a lot of the things we associate with pre-1865 slavery and what she says at the end of the letter was, this person colonel smith with his slaves unmercifully, black men and women are being submitted to slavery, this is not what we counted on for everything that we have done for this country and so i think that reall

in terms of -- the example the jackson morrison went through, or criminal surity where somebody coulde to a court and pay your fine and buy you out is that you not only would have an extension of your time, people would basically cook the books, and you would never get out of that debt. also, you have the threat of being killed or imprisoned if you were to try to leave. so, it was not only the extension of the time, the temporal aspect, but there was also the real terrorism that black people endured as a result that ended up in mass killings sometimes, rape as a de facto form of punishment by the master or by the company because we know that companies like u.s. steel took part in this neo slavery formations in places like alabama and tennessee. so, this was a large complex of not only labor, the acquisition of black labor but also terrorism against black people, a re-fabrication of white supremacy which is very important not only the fact that it was happening in the southern u.s. but this was all validated by the national government structure and by the very amendment to the u.s. con