Capital and Convict: Race, Region, and Punishment in Post-Civil War America

by Henry Kamerling

Both in the popular imagination and in academic discourse, North and South are presented as fundamentally divergent penal systems in the aftermath of the Civil War, a difference mapped onto larger perceived cultural disparities between the two regions. The South's post Civil War embrace of chain gangs and convict leasing occupies such a prominent position in the nation's imagination that it has come to represent one of the region's hallmark differences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813940559
• ISBN13: 9780813940557
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"