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Convict Leasing and Racial Capitalism

by Genoveva Ntirugelegwa Juvenile convicts at work in the fields[1]   While we have dissected prison in many different time periods and forms throughout this course, convict leasing is a part of prison history that I have become increasingly interested in. Convict leasing developed throughout the South immediately after the Civil War. In Sarah Haley’s […]

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