Henry Minter was working as a farm laborer in Georgia in the 1870s when he met Mary Dotson, a young black servant girl. The couple never married – which would have been illegal at the time – but they stayed together until Henry’s death. Mary, who was left with their four children, then became a washerwoman in Atlanta. Their daughter, Florence,
Mass Incarceration of Blacks Started Long Before the War on Drugs
In fact, America started imprisoning blacks en masse after the civil war.