One dies, get another : convict leasing in the American South, 1866-1928 /

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"In his seminal study of convict leasing in the post-Civil War South, Matthew J. Mancini chronicles one of the harshest, most exploitative labor systems in American history. Devastated by war, bewildered by peace, and unprepared to confront the problems of prison management, Southern states sou...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mancini, Matthew J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Convict labor > Southern States > History.
Prisoners > Southern States > History.
Prisonniers > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology
Convict labor
Prisoners
Strafgefangener
Zwangsarbeit
Southern States
USA > Südstaaten
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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