Inside the Wire: Photographs from Texas and Arkansas Prisons
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As recently as the 1970s, many inmates in southern prisons lived and worked on prison farms that were not only modeled after the American slave plantation, but even occupied lands that literally were slave plantations before the Civil War, and on which working and living conditions had not changed much a century after the war. Bruce Jackson began visiting some of these prison farms in the 1960s to study black convict worksongs and folk culture. He...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:029274496X
ISBN13:9780292744967
Release Date:April 2013
Publisher:University of Texas Press
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.04 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 9.9" x 12.3"
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