He describes the prisoners' daily existence, profiles the individuals who leased convicts, and reveals both the inhumanity of the leasing laws and the centrality of race relations in the establishment and perpetuation of convict leasing. He identifies commonalities that, despite the seemingly uneven enforcement of convict leasing across state lines, bound the South together for more than half a century in reliance on an institution of almost unrelieved brutality. Mancini describes the policy of leasing prisoners to individuals and corporations as one that, in addition to reducing prison populations and generating revenues, offered a means of racial subordination and labor discipline.
Devastated by war, bewildered by peace, and unprepared to confront the problems of prison management, Southern states sought to alleviate the need for cheap labor, a perceived rise in criminal behavior, and the bankruptcy of their state treasuries. Mancini chronicles one of the harshest, most exploitative labor systems in American history. Read detail book and summary below and click download button to get book file and read directly from your devices.Ī chronicle one of the harshest, most exploitative labor systems in American history In his seminal study of convict leasing in the post-Civil War South, Matthew J. This Book has 299 pages and Available to download in PDF, EPUB and Kindle Format.
It was published by Univ of South Carolina Press on 19 October 2022. Summary: One Dies Get Another PDF is a Fantastic Social Science book by Matthew J.
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