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We are not slaves : state violence, coerced labor, and prisoners' rights in postwar America / Robert T. Chase.

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Publisher's description: In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while housed in crude dormitories on what were effectively slave plantations. This system persisted until the 1940s when, led by...

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Main Author: Chase, Robert T. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Series:Justice, power, and politics.
Subjects:
Prisoners > Civil rights > Texas > History > 20th century.
Prisoners > Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Convict labor > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Prisoners > Violence against > Southern States > History > 20th century.
African American prisoners.
Mexican American prisoners.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Convict labor.
Prisoners > Civil rights.
Race relations.
Southern States.
Texas.
History.

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