Different Names, Same Chains: Black Political Disenfranchisement from the Three-Fifths Compromise to the Prison Industrial Complex

The histories of Black disenfranchisment and the argumentation on the connection of voting policies with criminality and citizenship that held Black voting power down while elevating the political power of the whites are examined. It cites how racial idea has emerged out of the paradox of slavery and freedom. The significance of the Three-Fifths Compromise in providing the slave states with power is also emphasized.