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Chained in Silence : Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South /

"In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The resulting convict leasing system ensnared not only men but also African American women, who were forced to labor in camps and factories to make profits for private investors. In this...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: LeFlouria, Talitha L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Between sound and silence
  • Introduction: "Only woman blacksmith in America is a convict"
  • The gendered anatomy of "Negro crime"
  • Black women and convict leasing in the "Empire State" of the new South
  • "The hand that rocks the cradle cuts cordwood" : prison camps for women
  • Sustaining the "weak and feeble" : women workers and the Georgia State Prison Farm
  • "Broken, ruined, and wrecked" : women on the chain gang
  • Epilogue: The sound of broken silence.