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One Dies, Get Another : Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928 /

He describes the prisoners' daily existence, profiles the individuals who leased convicts, and reveals both the inhumanity of the leasing laws and the centrality of race relations in the establishment and perpetuation of convict leasing. In considering the longevity of the practice, Mancini tak...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mancini, Matthew J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 1996.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Categories
  • Labor
  • Camps
  • Georgia : that sundown job
  • Alabama : her most indefensible shame
  • A hell in Arkansas
  • Mississippi : an epidemic death rate without the epidemic
  • Louisiana : the road to Angola
  • Tennessee : the economics of coercion
  • Texas : here come Bud Russel
  • Florida : leasing on the frontier
  • The Carolinas : paradigms for abolition
  • The abandonment of convict leasing.