TITLE

Good roads and chain gangs in the progressive South: `The negro convict is a slave.'

AUTHOR(S)

Lichtenstein, Alex

PUB. DATE

February 1993

SOURCE

Journal of Southern History;Feb93, Vol. 59 Issue 1, p85

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Examines the penal road gang in the South during the Progressive Era. Archaic statute labor system as a major impediment to good roads; Movement to improve roads using prison labor; Harnessing convict labor to Progressive methods and beliefs about crime and punishment; Racial repression and brutality; Turpentine camps; Improvement of roads in Georgia; Black convicts as desirable for road work; More.

ACCESSION #

9302190712

Tags: CONVICT labor -- History;  SOUTHERN States

 

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