Convict Wagon Example
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Title
Convict Wagon Example
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Image
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image/jpeg
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Source
Douglas A. Blackmon, Convict Wagons like these in Pitt County, North Carolina, 1910 were used across the South to transport and house African Americans compelled to work in road gangs, lumber camps, and farms, in Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (New York: Doubleday, 2008), insert page 8(top) Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USF344-007S41-ZB.
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Date
1910
Description
A chain gang of convicts engaged in road work. Pitt County, North Carolina. Autumn 1910. The inmates were quartered in the wagons shown in the picture. Wagons were equipped with bunks and move from place to place as labor is utilized. The dogs are bloodhounds used for running down any attempted escapes.
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Coverage
Publisher
Library of Congress