Chained in silence : Black women and convict labor in the new South /

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	LeFlouria, Talitha L.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Series:	Justice, power, and politics.
Subjects:	Convict labor > Georgia > History > 19th century. Convict labor > Georgia > History > 20th century. African American women > Georgia > Social conditions. African American prisoners > Georgia > Social conditions. Women prisoners > Georgia > Social conditions. Prisons and race relations > Georgia > History. Georgia > Race relations > History > 19th century. Georgia > Race relations > History > 20th century. Georgia > Economic conditions > 19th century. Georgia > Economic conditions > 20th century. African American prisoners > Social conditions. African American women > Social conditions. Convict labor. Economic history. Prisons and race relations. Race relations. Women prisoners > Social conditions. Georgia. 1800 - 1999 History.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: Between sound and silence
Introduction: "Only woman blacksmith in America is a convict"
The gendered anatomy of "Negro crime"
Black women and convict leasing in the "Empire State" of the new South
"The hand that rocks the cradle cuts cordwood" : prison camps for women
Sustaining the "weak and feeble" : women workers and the Georgia State Prison Farm
"Broken, ruined, and wrecked" : women on the chain gang
Epilogue: The sound of broken silence.