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Convict Lease System

The "Convict Lease System" is a historical form of penal labor in which state governments contracted incarcerated individuals to private entities for economic exploitation, distinguished by the transfer of physical control and labor output of convicts to external employers in exchange for compensation to the state.

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2017–2026

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One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866-1928.

Stephen H. Norwood, Matthew J. Mancini · The Journal of Southern History · 1997 · 165 citations

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One dies, get another: convict leasing in the American South, 1866-1928

Choice Reviews Online · 1996 · 83 citations

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Freedom and Convict Leasing in the Postbellum South

Christopher Muller · American Journal of Sociology · 2018 · 79 citations · Full text

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“Like I Was a Man”: Chain Gangs, Gender, and the Domestic Carceral Sphere in Jim Crow Georgia

Sarah Haley · Signs · 2013 · 74 citations

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States of Confinement: Policing, Detention, and Prisons

Michael Coyle, Joy James · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 2003 · 65 citations

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Authors

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  1. FG
    Farley Grubb

    University of Delaware, United States

    3 publications · 78 citations

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  2. MJ
    Matthew J. Mancini

    University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States

    2 publications · 227 citations

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  3. MC
    Milfred C. Fierce

    Hope College, United States

    2 publications · 29 citations

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  4. SL
    Shaun L. Gabbidon

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    2 publications · 70 citations

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  5. HT
    Helen Taylor Greene

    Old Dominion University, United States

    2 publications · 70 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of Delaware

    Newark, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    78 citations

  2. University of Leicester

    Leicester, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    79 citations

  4. University of New England

    Armidale, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    20 citations

  5. Sewanee: The University of the South

    Sewanee, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  6. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

    Honolulu, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  7. New York University

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    64 citations

  8. City of Cape Town

    Cape Town, South Africa

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

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  1. The Journal of Southern History

    2 publications · 175 citations

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  2. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 2 publications · 95 citations

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  3. PubMed

    Repository · 2 publications · 46 citations

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  4. The Journal of Economic History

    2 publications · 54 citations

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  5. Medical Entomology and Zoology

    1 publications · 20 citations

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