American INsecurity (Part 2)

In the interview by Noam Chomsky I mentioned earlier, he comments

After the Emancipation Proclamation, there were about 10 years in which blacks were formally sort of free, and then slavery was reintroduced by incarceration. By the 1870s the states had passed laws, and federal government approved them, in which essentially black life was criminalized.

This theme is picked up by Stephen Fry in the QI show below.