July 31, 2017

Everywhere

yet nowhere:

How the

convict labor

of Black women

built the new South

Historian Talitha LeFlouria examines the incarcerated labor of Black women in Reconstruction-era Georgia – work that rebuilt the South’s infrastructure and industrial economy under brutal conditions, enabled by the social language and legal mechanisms around Black lives that persist in America’s modern mass incarceration complex.

Talitha is author of the book Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South from UNC Press: www.uncpress.org/book/97814696300…ined-in-silence/

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