We are not slaves : state violence, coerced labor, and prisoners' rights in postwar America / Robert T. Chase.

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"In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while housed in crude dormitories on what were effectively slave plantations. This system persisted until the 1940s when, led by Texas, southern states adopt...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Justice, power, and politics.
Main Author: Chase, Robert T. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Series:Justice, power, and politics.
Subjects:
Prisoners > Civil rights > Texas > History > 20th century.
Prisoners > Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Convict labor > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Prisoners > Violence against > Southern States > History > 20th century.
African American prisoners.
Mexican American prisoners.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Convict labor.
Prisoners > Civil rights.
Race relations.
Southern States.
Texas.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:525 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Format: Book

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