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Part One: The War On Vagrants

Behind the Bastards

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The Importance of Choice in Capitalism

In Memphis, the Freedmen's Bureau started organizing patrols to arrest black people at random and send them to work for white employers. In former slave states, a great deal of the actual punishment work was done by employees of the vagrant law system. The way that most common barbers do it is they write letters in their community who would be like "this does not make sense"

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