Search Results


Related Books

Capital and Convict
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Henry Kamerling
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-28 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
One Dies, Get Another
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Matthew J. Mancini
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Slavery by Another Name
Language: en
Pages: 429
Authors: Douglas A. Blackmon
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-04 - Publisher: Icon Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
City of Inmates
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: Kelly Lytle Hernández
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-15 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Twice the Work of Free Labor
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Alexander C. Lichtenstein
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-01-17 - Publisher: Verso

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Scroll to top