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I recently learned that white southerners could take out a "mortgage" to purchase a slave on credit. How did emancipation affect these lines of credit? Is there any link between these creditors and Jim Crow practices that entrapped former slaves in indentured servitude?

by /u/PokerPirate in /r/AskHistorians

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