Summary Of Chained In Silence

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Etini Samuel Udoko
HIST 201-001
Paper #2 "Black Women Convict Laborers in the New South" Working History
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Reconstruction's Silent Workers

This podcast is titled Working History and features Professor Talitha LeFlouria, the author of Chained in Silence, a book which highlights incarceration conditions set in place for African American women and the labor force in the south during the 20th century. In this Professor LeFlouria talks about the incarceration process as well as a system that permitted inmates to be used as a free labor force. Professor LeFlouria's main emphasis is the population of African American or black women who played a major, yet silent role during the reconstruction period in the south. From my personal stance,
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