Texas Gulag: The Chain Gang Years 1875-1925

by Gary Brown and Gary Brown

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556229313
• ISBN13: 9781556229312
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.2"