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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-28 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Both in the popular imagination and in academic discourse, North and South are presented as fundamentally divergent penal systems in the aftermath of the Civil
Language: en
Pages: 306
Pages: 306
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
A study of convict leasing in the post-Civil War American South, an institution of unrelieved brutality. The Southern States sought to reduce prison populations
Language: en
Pages: 429
Pages: 429
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-04 - Publisher: Icon Books
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Dou
Language: en
Pages: 312
Pages: 312
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-15 - Publisher: UNC Press Books
Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains ho
Language: en
Pages: 300
Pages: 300
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-01-17 - Publisher: Verso
Twice the Work of Free Labor is both a study of penal labor in the southern United States, and a revisionist analysis of the political economy of the South afte