BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Is slavery back in Alabama? Adam Obernauer, organizing director for the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union one of five organizations, including the AFL-CIO, now suing to stop it says “yes.
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The complaint notes that while 26.8% of Alabama’s population identifies as Black or African American, double that percentage constitutes the Black incarcerated population. Drawing historical parallels, the group compares the alleged labor-trafficking scheme to the enslavement of individuals in Alabama’s cotton fields and subsequent sharecropping and convict leasing practices post-Civil War.