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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fascinating,
This review is from: Twice The Work of Free Labor (Haymarket) (Paperback)
The first chapter is a rather inconsequential, unnecessary, and tedious discussion about the continuity vel non of the Old and New Souths. Mercifully, it is quite short.The rest of the book, however, offers one of the most erudite, engaging, and enlightening histories of convict leasing and the chain gang I've read. The worst things I can say about it is that its title fails to alert the reader to the fact the it focuses almost exclusively on prisoner exploitation in Georgia, and that it deliberately slights the "story from 'below,'" leaving out for the most part the "tales of racial brutality and torture" one might expect from such a book. Nevertheless, it's an excellent piece of work, and a great companion to Matthew Mancini's One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928. |
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Twice The Work of Free Labor (Haymarket) by Alexander C. Lichtenstein (Paperback - January 17, 1996)
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