One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928 by Matthew J. Mancini

One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928

Matthew J. Mancini

296 pages first pub 1996 (view editions)

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In his seminal study of convict leasing in the post-Civil War South, Matthew J. Mancini chronicles one of the harshest, most exploitative labor systems in American history. Devastated by war, bewildered by peace, and unprepared to confront the pro...

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