The story of Australia’s Black convicts has been all but erased from our history. In this deeply researched and illuminating book, Santilla Chingaipe offers a

In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The resulting convict leasing system ensnared not on

This book traces the history of black prisoners in Alabama and their connections to and participation in the labor movement among miners in the late 19th centur

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Dou

Explores a Washington, DC slave trader's legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans.