Unnamed Prisoner
Item
Identifier
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Title
Unnamed Prisoner
Type
Image
Format
image/jpeg
Language
Source
Douglas A. Blackmon, an unnamed prisoner, 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 1(top) Courtesy of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Date
ca. 1920
Description
An unnamed prisoner tied around a pickaxe for punishment in a Georgia labor camp. Photograph by John L. Spivak, during his research for his 1932 book, Georgia Nigger.