"Restricted Movement" and Coordinates of Freedom: Southern Chain Gangs in Twentieth-Century American Literature and Film
Thesis advisor: Christopher P. Wilson === For more than a century, the chain gang has been glamorized, criticized, abhorred, and often explained away as an economic necessity or natural byproduct of historical circumstances. After Emancipation, this centuries-old approach to punishing criminals offe...
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Boston College
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2741 |