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Convict Wagon

Item

Identifier

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Title

Convict Wagon

Type

Image

Format

image/jpeg

Language

Source

Matthew J. Mancini, Convict Wagon, in Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996), 61.

Rights

In Copyright

Date

c. 1900s

Description

Illustration of another type of moving prison camp, the converted boxcar used to house railroad construction gangs. Depicted is both a rear and front view.

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