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As slaves we were this countrys first windfall, the down payment of its freedom. After the ruin and the liberation of the Civil War came Redemption for the unrepentant South and Reunion, and our bodies became this countrys second mortgage. In the New Deal we were their gestroom, their finished basement. And today, with a sprawling prison system, which has turned the warehousing of black bodies into job programs for Dreamers and lucrative for Dreamers; today when 8 percent of the worlds prisoners are black men, our bodies has refinanced the Dream of being white. Black life is cheap, but in America black bodies are a natural resource of incomparable value.