In this episode:

I will explore how Southern Americans were able to continue to enslave Blacks long after the 13th amendment by passing vagrancy laws, creating sharecropping, and leveraging convict leasing.

I will then examine how radical republicans would attempt to rebuild the south with reconstruction and fail.

Lastly I will discuss how all of these events would lead to Jim Crow Laws in the South and lay the foundation for the racial wealth gap we experience today.