Texas Gulag: The Chain Gang Years 1875-1925
by Gary Brown
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Taylor Trade Publishing, 2002. Paperback. New. New trade softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (5.62 x 0.84 x 8.5 inches) B&W photos and illustrations. includes a bibliography and Index. 284 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. For fifty years prison inmates in Texas were leased out to railroads, coal mines, farm plantations, and sawmill crews with terrible incidences of brutality, cruelty, injury, and death to the prisoners. They were forced to produce daily work quotas of seven tons of coal, three hundred pounds of cotton, or one and one-half cords of wood. They were fed spoiled hog meat and slept on mattresses filled with bugs and filthy from sweat, blood, and dirt. They were punished by brutal whippings with an instrument known as the bat and by various other methods. Self-mutilation by cutting off fingers, hands, and feet and even self-blinding were commonplace to avoid working in these lease camps. It was a period in which the state prison system was shrouded in secrecy. Former prisoners had only one option available to try to inform the public about the brutality and corruption. They could write their personal memoirs. And an amazing number of them did--dating back to the 1870s. Herein are some of their stories.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. For fifty years prison inmates in Texas were leased out to railroads, coal mines, farm plantations, and sawmill crews with terrible incidences of brutality, cruelty, injury, and death to the prisoners. They were forced to produce daily work quotas of seven tons of coal, three hundred pounds of cotton, or one and one-half cords of wood. They were fed spoiled hog meat and slept on mattresses filled with bugs and filthy from sweat, blood, and dirt. They were punished by brutal whippings with an instrument known as the bat and by various other methods. Self-mutilation by cutting off fingers, hands, and feet and even self-blinding were commonplace to avoid working in these lease camps. It was a period in which the state prison system was shrouded in secrecy. Former prisoners had only one option available to try to inform the public about the brutality and corruption. They could write their personal memoirs. And an amazing number of them did--dating back to the 1870s. Herein are some of their stories.
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- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
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- Title
- Texas Gulag: The Chain Gang Years 1875-1925
- Author
- Gary Brown
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1556229313
- ISBN 13
- 9781556229312
- Publisher
- Taylor Trade Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Plano
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Texas, forced labor, beaten, starved, prisoners,
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