Choose one of the following economic systems and discuss how it evolved in America after slavery was “abolished”
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Choose one of the following economic systems and discuss how it evolved in America after slavery was “abolished”: debt peonage, sharecropping, tenant farming, convict leasing, prison farms, and privatized prisons.
Discuss the importance of African American property ownership, entrepreneurship, banking, and wealth creation and accumulation from slavery to the present. What challenges have African Americans faced in accumulating and passing on generational wealth from slavery to the present?
Discuss Baltimore’s Segregation Ordinances of 1910-1913, and the city’s significance in the development of residential racial segregation in the United States. What role did the city play in helping to create blockbusting, white flight, and redlining?
How has America’s infrastructure and supporting systems contributed to and maintained geographies of racism from slavery to the present? Make sure to consider the role of or threat of racial violence in your answer.
Explain the historical role played by African American unions such as the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the Washerwoman’s Union in Atlanta. Why were these organizations important and what opportunities did they provide for African Americans?
