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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900
- ISBN-13
- 9780813919843
- ISBN
- 9780813919843
- Subject Area
- Technology & Engineering, Social Science, History
- Publication Name
- Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Subject
- Mining, Sociology / General, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Penology, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Series
- Carter G. Woodson Institute Ser.: Black Studies at Work in the World
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 16.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
ISBN-10
0813919843
ISBN-13
9780813919843
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1666947
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900
Subject
Mining, Sociology / General, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Penology, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Technology & Engineering, Social Science, History
Series
Carter G. Woodson Institute Ser.: Black Studies at Work in the World
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
16.3 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
00-028214
Reviews
As a study of African-American convict life in the New South, Mary Ellen Curtin's work has no equals. She gives voice to the dispossessed without romanticization, and much of the book is simply brilliant., As a study of African-American convict life in the New South, Mary Ellen Curtin's work has no equals. She gives voice to the dispossessed without romanticization, and much of the book is simply brilliant. -- Alex Lichtenstein, Florida International University
Dewey Edition
21
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
365/.65
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Legacy of Reconstruction 2. Emancipation and Black Prisoners 3. Crime and Social Conflict 4. Prisons for Profit, 1871-1883 5. Prisoners and Reform, 1883-1885 6. Working and Surviving in Prison Mines 7. Female Prisoners 8. Prisoners Confront TCI 9. A Mortal Crisis 10. Black Leadership Responds 11. Paternalism, the Lease, and the Law 12. Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Epilogue Notes Index
Synopsis
In the late nineteenth century, prisoners in Alabama, the vast majority of them African Americans, were forced to work as coal miners under the most horrendous conditions imaginable. Black Prisoners and Their World draws on a variety of sources, including the reports and correspondence of prison inspectors and letters from prisoners and their families, to explore the history of the African American men and women whose labor made Alabama's prison system the most profitable in the nation. To coal companies and the state of Alabama, black prisoners provided, respectively, sources of cheap labor and state revenue. By 1883, a significant percentage of the workforce in the Birmingham coal industry was made up of convicts. But to the families and communities from which the prisoners came, the convict lease was a living symbol of the dashed hopes of Reconstruction. Indeed, the lease?the system under which the prisoners labored for the profit of the company and the state?demonstrated Alabama's reluctance to let go of slavery and its determination to pursue profitable prisons no matter what the human cost. Despite the efforts of prison officials, progressive reformers, and labor unions, the state refused to take prisoners out of the coal mines. In the course of her narrative, Mary Ellen Curtin describes how some prisoners died while others endured unspeakable conditions and survived. Curtin argues that black prisoners used their mining skills to influence prison policy, demand better treatment, and become wage-earning coal miners upon their release. Black Prisoners and Their World unearths new evidence about life under the most repressive institution in the New South. Curtin suggests disturbing parallels between the lease and today's burgeoning system of private incarceration., This study draws on a variety of sources, including the reports and correspondence of prison inspectors and letters from prisoners and their families, to explore the history of the African-American men and women whose labour made Alabama's prison system the most profitable in the country., In the late nineteenth century, prisoners in Alabama, the vast majority of them African Americans, were forced to work as coal miners under the most horrendous conditions imaginable. Black Prisoners and Their World draws on a variety of sources, including the reports and correspondence of prison inspectors and letters from prisoners and their families, to explore the history of the African American men and women whose labor made Alabama's prison system the most profitable in the nation. To coal companies and the state of Alabama, black prisoners provided, respectively, sources of cheap labor and state revenue. By 1883, a significant percentage of the workforce in the Birmingham coal industry was made up of convicts. But to the families and communities from which the prisoners came, the convict lease was a living symbol of the dashed hopes of Reconstruction. Indeed, the lease--the system under which the prisoners labored for the profit of the company and the state--demonstrated Alabama's reluctance to let go of slavery and its determination to pursue profitable prisons no matter what the human cost. Despite the efforts of prison officials, progressive reformers, and labor unions, the state refused to take prisoners out of the coal mines. In the course of her narrative, Mary Ellen Curtin describes how some prisoners died while others endured unspeakable conditions and survived. Curtin argues that black prisoners used their mining skills to influence prison policy, demand better treatment, and become wage-earning coal miners upon their release. Black Prisoners and Their World unearths new evidence about life under the most repressive institution in the New South. Curtin suggests disturbing parallels between the lease and today's burgeoning system of private incarceration.
LC Classification Number
HV8929.A22C87 2000
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