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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mancini, Matthew J. 1947- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia, SC Univ. of South Carolina Press 1996
In:Year: 1996
Online Access: Book review (H-Net)
Availability in Tübingen:Present in Tübingen.
UB: KB 19 A 4638
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Keywords:
Convict labor > Southern States > History
Prisoners > Southern States > History
USA > Südstaaten > Strafgefangener > Zwangsarbeit > Geschichte 1866-1928
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 266 - 274) and index
Physical Description:XI, 283 S., Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:9781570030833
1570030839