Had a monster of a brunch with my folks. Approaching food coma.

The Alien and Sedition Act of 1798, the “Tariff of Abominations,” and the Connecticut Compromise are sexy again

In areas where county convict camps were operated, pushback from locals could be violent, especially during economic downturns (like in 1893) when jobs were scarce and lessees were seen as robbing free-world Arkansans of work and using convict labor, which was far cheaper, instead.

This also speaks to a hidden part of leasing: so many inmates were held on county convict farms or camps--rather than on state ones--where oversight was essentially nonexistent but where everyday Arkansans encountered/interacted with inmates, sometimes working alongside them, like in mines.

"In the freedom struggle story, Black people are seen as ordinary and heroic precisely /because/ they knew so little about law. But if that is so, then why, when a mass movement against racial injustice finally took hold in the 1950s, did so many Black people put their faith in law at all? (xviii)"