Chained in Silence (eBook)

Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South

Talitha L. LeFlouria (Autor)

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2015
280 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-2248-4 (ISBN)

Infos

In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The resulting convict leasing system ensnared not only men but also African American women, who were forced to labor in camps and factories to make profits for private investors. In this vivid work of history, Talitha L. LeFlouria draws from a rich array of primary sources to piece together the stories of these women, recounting what they endured in Georgia’s prison system and what their labor accomplished. LeFlouria argues that African American women’s presence within the convict lease and chain-gang systems of Georgia helped to modernize the South by creating a new and dynamic set of skills for black women. At the same time, female inmates struggled to resist physical and sexual exploitation and to preserve their human dignity within a hostile climate of terror. This revealing history redefines the social context of black women’s lives and labor in the New South and allows their stories to be told for the first time.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.4.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics
• Zusatzinfo: 8 halftones, 5 tables, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: black female convicts • black female reformers • black women and convict labor after the Civil War • black women and convict leasing • black women and crime • black women and reproduction • black women and sexuality • black women and sexual violence • black women and work • black women prisoners in Georgia • black women’s lives and labor after the Civil War • Bolton broom factory • Camp Heardmont • chain-gangs in the South • Chattahoochee brick company • children in prison • coal mines in the South • convict labor after the Civil War • convict labor in Georgia • convict labor in the South • convict leasing in Georgia • convict leasing in the South • crime and punishment in the South • Dade Coal Company • early forms of mass incarceration • female lumber workers • female prisoners in the South • freedwomen and the law • Georgia state prison farm • James English • Joseph E. Brown • juvenile prisoners • lynching in the South • Mary Church Terrell • medical violence • mothers in prison • Old Town prison farm • penal systems of the South • prison farms • prison labor in the South • prison physicians • prison railroad workers • prison reform in the South • prison reform movement • Rebecca Latimer Felton • reproductive justice • Sexual Violence • sharecropping in the South • the rape of women prisoners • violence against women / • Violence Against Women • W.E.B. Du Bois • women and chain-gangs • women and crime • women and punishment • women and southern prisons
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-2248-3 / 1469622483
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2248-4 / 9781469622484