
Bonus: Faith, Justice, And The Civil Rights Movement Through The Lens Of Fannie Lou Hamer
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Exploring Economic Exploitation: From Slavery to Sharecropping
This chapter explores the historical foundations of slavery and sharecropping in America, emphasizing the greed and systemic racism that fueled these oppressive systems. It highlights the chattel principle and the emergence of sharecropping as a means of economic servitude, which continued to entrap formerly enslaved individuals in cycles of debt and poverty.
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