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

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Author / Creator:Mancini, Matthew J.
Imprint:Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c1996.
Description:xi, 283 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2418619
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ISBN:1570030839
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Making Sense of Convict Leasing. 1. Categories. 2. Labor. 3. Camps
  • Pt. 2. Convict Leasing in the States. 4. Georgia: That Sundown Job. 5. Alabama: Her Most Indefensible Shame. 6. A Hell in Arkansas. 7. Mississippi: An Epidemic Death Rate without the Epidemic. 8. Louisiana: The Road to Angola. 9. Tennessee: The Economics of Coercion. 10. Texas: Here Come Bud Russel. 11. Florida: Leasing on the Frontier. 12. The Carolinas: Paradigms for Abolition
  • Pt. 3. Abolition. 13. The Abandonment of Convict Leasing.