Incarceration and state terror: racial capitalism in the American South, 1865-1945

This thesis presents a history of the State of Florida's convict leasing program (1877-1920) and situates critical developments in the prison system within concurrent transformations of racial capitalism in the American South. The social struggles that followed the Civil War forged the legal, p...

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Main Author: Donegan, Connor McElwee
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44987