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African American Carceral Labor Under Jim Crow Prison Systems, 1940s

African American Incarceration Forced Labor

Unknown photographer, group of prison labor photographs, circa 1940s, documenting the use of incarcerated African American men in organized manual labor within the mid-twentieth-century United States penal system. The material documents the system of carceral labor through visual evidence of supervised work assignments, revealing how incarcerated individuals were deployed in.....

Price: $550.00

African American Incarceration Documentary Photographs of Southern Chain Gangs and Forced Prison Labor 1900s and 1950s

Black Chain Gang Prison Forced Labor

Chain gang labor photographs from the early twentieth century and mid twentieth century document the continuation of forced penal labor in the American South, a system that disproportionately targeted African American prisoners after the end of Reconstruction. Convict leasing and chain gang labor became central components of Southern penal systems.....

Price: $1,000.00