Jake’s Reviews > The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness > Status Update

Recap of history, that I forgot about. Bacon’s rebellion— to overthrow the planter elite, & seize Native land and nullify Indian raids.

“Although slaves clearly occupied the lowest position in the social hierarchy and suffered the most under the plantation system, the condition of indentured whites was barely better, and the majority of free whites lived in extreme poverty.”