convict
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Convict leasing was essentially a new form of slavery that started after the Civil War and went on for decades across the South.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2022
In August 2019, during Kefas’ detention at the Kaduna Convict Prison, Kefas’ mother paid him a visit and pleaded with him to forgo his activism.
From Slate • Dec. 28, 2021
Convict leasing lasted into the 1920s when Southern states chose to employ their convicts directly in chain gangs to build the region’s railroads and highways.
From Salon • Dec. 7, 2019
Autumn Payne’s documentary “A Horse, a Convict, a Chance for Change,” focuses on a program in which prison inmates train mustangs for adoption.
From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2018
“Could I make a guess, I wonder,” said the Convict, “at your income since you come of age! As to the first figure now. Five?”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Vocabulary lists containing convict
13th Amendment (1865)
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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Twelve Angry Men
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