The American South (Geographic Keyword)
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"Hellish in Principle and Brutal in Practice": Preliminary Investigations of 19th Century Prison Labor in North Carolina (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper presents preliminary research on the prison labor camps erected for the construction of the Western North Carolina Railroad (WNCRR) during the late 1870’s and 1880’s under the convict leasing system. This system proliferated across the American South following the Civil War and the emancipation of enslaved people. While...