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Black prisoners and their world, Alabama, 1865-1900
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- Creator
- Mary Ellen Curtin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xi, 261 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0813919819, 9780813919812, 0813919843, 9780813919843
- OCLC
- ocm43567426
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-254) and index.
- 1. Legacy of Reconstruction 12 -- 2. Emancipation and Black Prisoners 28 -- 3. Crime and Social Conflict 42 -- 4. Prisons for Profit, 1871-1883 62 -- 5. Prisoners and Reform, 1883-1885 81 -- 6. Working and Surviving in Prison Mines 97 -- 7. Female Prisoners 113 -- 8. Prisoners Confront TCI 130 -- 9. A Mortal Crisis 147 -- 10. Black Leadership Responds 168 -- 11. Paternalism, the Lease, and the Law 183 -- 12. Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners 196