00:01
Alright, so under the convict lease system, more blacks were sentenced for felonies than the misdemeanors.
00:13
So whether this is true or false, so this statement is going to be true here.
00:18
Yes, you can simply say the convict police system which emerged after the civil war and during reconstruction disproportionately targeted black individuals for various crimes, often categorizing minor offenses like vagrancy or petty theft as felonies to justify their imprisonment and use as cheap labor under the police system.
00:49
Now, secondly, black women were excluded from being sentenced to the convict -lazed system.
00:57
So, whether this is true or false, so this statement is going to be the false statement.
01:02
Yes, now you can say that black women were also subjected to the convict -lazed system while the majority of lazed convicts were black men.
01:13
Black women were also imprisoned and leased out through in smaller numbers compared to men.
01:23
Right...