Pendleton District Chain Gang of Prisoners
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Identifier
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Title
Pendleton District Chain Gang of Prisoners
Type
Image
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Language
Source
W.J. Megginson, Chain Gang of Prisoners, as seen in the late 1800s, in African American Life in South Carolina's Upper Piedmont 1780-1900 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006), 377.
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Date
ca. 1880s
Description
A chain gang of prisoners, as seen in the late 1800s. Often built public roads or worked on private farmland, with a heavy death toll.