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Exactly. Black codes and vagrancy "laws" targeted blacks. Convict leasing made a lot of white people wealthy.True.
By the end of the 19th Century, slavery existed de facto in the South.
In essence, blacks were falsely charged with crimes, and having no legal recourse or resources, invariably convicted.
Or relatively minor offenses were met with harsh, long-term incarceration.
This practice continued through to the 1960s; in 1963 the Supreme Court incorporated the Sixth Amendment to the states and local jurisdictions, affording defendants the right to counsel.