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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"chain gangs"”.
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Behind Workhouse Walls: The Public Regulation of Slavery in Charleston, 1730-1850
… traces the implications through convict leasing, chain gangs, and penitentiaries in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The presence of enslaved people within jails and workhouses during the antebellum period, however, challenges the assumptions that frame the …
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Circuits Of Containment: Iron Collars, Incarceration And The Infrastructure Of Slavery
… iron collars by enslavers, in conjunction with chains, jails, the state penitentiary, and forced labor on municipal and state public works shows how technologies shaped enslaved peoples lives as they were captured, contained, and forced to be productive units of labor. By combining insights from …
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Slavery and the origins of Louisiana’s prison industry, 1803-1861
… labour in prison factories and state-sponsored chain gangs. In the latter, enslaved prisoners built the infrastructure that supported Louisiana’s commercial expansion. But as the prison emerged as an important centre of economic production, it was also transformed into a site of struggle, as …