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Slaves of the state : black incarceration from the chain gang to the penitentiary / Dennis Childs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Childs, Dennis, 1972- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American prisoners--History.
- African American prisoners.
- Slavery--United States--History.
- Slavery.
- History.
- United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 259 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- 1 "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet": Beloved and the Middle Passage Carceral Model 25
- 2 "Except as Punishment for a Crime": The Thirteenth Amendment and the Rebirth of Chattel Imprisonment 57
- 3 Angola Penitentiary: The Once and Future Slave Plantation 93
- 4 The Warfare of Northern Neoslavery in Chester Himes s Yesterday Will Make You Cry 141.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816692408
- 0816692408
- 9780816692415
- 0816692416
- OCLC:
- 881318274
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