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Hello, I am researching American crimes against humanity. . This space so far has been most strongly for memes, and that's fine.

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"In the early 20th century, nearly all state prisoners were leased to private companies for hard labor in often deplorable conditions. Prisoners were expected to labor from sunrise to sunset mining phosphate, tapping pine trees for turpentine, clearing swamps, harvesting timber or building roads."

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I tracked it back to this database from florida.

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