What Do You Do When You No Longer Need Your Slaves?

Tuesday, 13 August 2013 14:28 
By The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program | Op-Ed 

What does America do when she no longer needs her slaves or surplus workers?

The 1880’s reconstruction era was the first time in our history that America had seen a large surplus of non-white labor.

In the 1870’s many former slaves were integrated into the labor force, but white backlash in the 1880’s and 1890’s led to a permanent underclass through nearly a century of “separate but equal.”