Describe how black peonage and black chain gangs fit

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Question 1: Describe how black peonage and black chain gangs fit into the South's economic, legal, and criminal systems in this era. Whose interests did peonage and chain gangs serve? How did the conditions of peonage and the chain gang compare with the conditions of slavery?

Question 2.What role did black people play in seeking to end peonage? What role did the federal government play?

Question 3.Discuss lynching as both a spectacle and a symbol. What were the lessons to be learned from lynching for blacks? For whites?

Question 4.After 1892, the number of lynchings declined until it spiked again in the 1920s. (See By the Numbers: Lynchings Every Five Years, 1885-1950, p. 377.) Speculate about the reasons for this initial decline. Could a lynching happen today? Why or why not?

Question 5.How do peonage, lynching, the chain gang, and the campaigns to abolish them illustrate the tension between constraint and agency, between oppression and resistance?

Question 6. Do you see any continuities or discontinuities between today's mass incarceration crisis afflicting black and brown people in particular and earlier alarming patterns illustrating disproportionate and unjust incarceration rates for blacks?

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