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convict leasing

The Stockade Stood Burning: rebellion and the convict lease in Tennessee’s coalfields, 1891-1895

Something happened in Tennessee, something almost unimaginable to the mine owners…
American miner in 1890

1891: Miners against prison labour

Howard Zinn's account of American miners' struggles against the use of slave prison labour.

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