Debtors
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As international capital markets developed in the early nineteenth century, state governments borrowed on a large scale, quickly turning them from creditors into
debtors
.
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They viewed the people they sold not as fellow Africans but criminals, debtors, or prisoners of war from rival tribes.
And so many of our lawsuits at Equal Justice Under Law target these modern-day
debtors'
prisons.
So, they'd take the
debtors
to this place and they'd say, "We're not letting you leave until you make a payment on your debt."
But if it wasn't, you'd stay there for days or weeks, and every day the guards would come down to the cells and haggle with the
debtors
about the price of release that day.
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