Answers don’t need to be too long, nut they have to be on point and include what the questions have asked.
Please have 2 answers in each questions, it’s fine to have the same idea,
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Questions:
1. Summarize the parts of the video in several paragraphs. Your answers should show that you did not copy someone else’s work and that you watched the entire film as required.
2. Describe the loophole in the Thirteenth Amendment that allowed for convict labor as a type of bondage (slavery), and describe how debt peonage was a mechanism to prevent convicts from gaining freedom.
3. List six kinds of behaviors that were made into crimes with stiff punishments,and the percentage of blacks convicted.
Six behaviors:
Percentage of convicts who were black by 1890:
4. Describe how states colluded with commercial enterprises to both gain wealth from convict labor and include specific businesses:
What was the death rate for workers in mines?
Convict labor was % cheaper than regular labor.
5. How much revenue did the State of Alabama gain in its first year of convict leasing, and how much by 1890?
6. Summarize the stories of Ezekial Archey and Green Cottenham. Include how they became convicts, where they worked, and for Cottenham, how debt-peonage kept him enslaved.
Ezekial:
Cottonham:
7. Assume Archey and Cottenham had kids and grandkids. Describe how their prospects in life would be affected — health, education, wealth — by the convict labor system compared to the children of the mine owner that employed Archy and Cottenham?
8. Summarize how convict labor contributed to racialized class formation (by transferring wealth from the poor to the wealthy, from blacks to whites) and was continued by the racist US housing policies as seen in the video, The House We Live In.
9. When and how was the practice of convict labor (not peonage alone) finally outlawed and by which president?
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