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; . . . Accra Ghana (2006) Jurisdictions and states created fines and sentences for a wide variety of minor crimes and used these as an excuse to arrest and sentence blacks Under convict leasing programs African American men often guilty of no crime at all were arrested compelled to work without pay repeatedly bought and sold and coerced to do the bidding of the leaseholder Sharecropping as it was practiced during this period often involved severe restrictions on the freedom of movement of sharecroppers who could be whipped for leaving the plantation Both sharecropping and convict leasing were legal and tolerated by both the north and south However peonage was an illicit form of forced labor Its existence was ignored by authorities while thousands of African Americans and poor Anglo Americans were subjugated and held in bondage until the mid 1960s to the late 1970s. . The impeachment trial of President Clinton in 1999 Chief Justice William Rehnquist presiding, 8.1 Convict leasing When Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater in April 1865 thousands flocked into Washington to view the coffin further raising the profile of the city the new president Andrew Johnson wanted to dispel the funereal atmosphere and organized a program of victory parades which revived public hopes for the future. !

4 Other notable people of the period 1 Overview 4 Retrocession Slaves and slavery are mentioned only indirectly in the 1787 Constitution for example Article 1 Section 2 Clause 3 prescribes that "three fifths of all other Persons" are to be counted for the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives and direct taxes Additionally in Article 4 Section 2 Clause 3 slaves are referred to as "persons held in service or labor" the Founding Fathers however did make important efforts to contain slavery Many Northern states had adopted legislation to end or significantly reduce slavery during and after the American Revolution in 1782 Virginia passed a manumission law that allowed slave owners to free their slaves by will or deed. As a result thousands of slaves were manumitted in Virginia. Thomas Jefferson in 1784 proposed to ban slavery in all the Western Territories which failed to pass Congress by one vote. Partially following Jefferson's plan Congress did ban slavery in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 for lands north of the Ohio River. !