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For the first time in a generation shain gangs have reappeared on the raods of the American South. Associated in the past with racial terrorism, this cruel and unusual punishment should invoke strong memories. But, in the rush to embrace ever-harsher sanctions, the American public has ignored the troubling history of Southern punishment. Twice the Work of Free Labor is the first book-length study of the history of the Southern convict-lease system and its successor, the chain gang. For nearly a century after the abolition of slavery, convicts labored in the South's mines, railroad camps, brickyards, turpentine farms and then road gangs, under abject conditions. The vast majority of these prisoners were African Americans. In this timely book, Alex Lichtenstein suggests that, after emancipation, forced black labor was exploited not by those who yearned for the social order of the slave South, but by the region's most ardent advocates of progress. The convict-lease and chain gang allowed a New South to rise while preserving white supremacy.

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• Celý názov: Twice the Work of Free Labor
• Autor: Alex Lichtenstein
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 292
• EAN: 9781859840863
• ISBN: 1859840868
• ID: 05119928
• Nakladateľ: Verso Books
• Hmotnosť: 519 g
• Rozmery: 236 × 156 × 23 mm
• Dátum vydania: 17. January 1996

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