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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 […]
Convict Leasing in 1920s Georgia
by Audrey Vila Source: “Papers of the NAACP: Prisoner leasing to states and federal prisoner treatment legislation” [0] Published as an NAACP subject file, the source is a collection of newspaper articles about an alleged instance of convict leasing in Georgia in 1929. Almost 100 Black prisoners were leased from the Atlanta Federal Prison to […]
$50 reward for the capture of Henry Williams!
by Xitlali Ramirez Image: “$50 reward for the capture of Henry Williams!”[1] The image shown above was created by P. J. Rogger under the Tennessee Coal, Iron, & Rail Road Company (TCI) in the 1880s.[2] The source claims that a convict named Henry Williams escaped from the Pratt Mines prison. TCI purchased Pratt Mines […]
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