Everywhere Yet Nowhere: How the Convict Labor of Black Women Built the New South

'Historian Talitha LeFlouria examines the incarcerated labor of Black women in Reconstruction-era Georgia - work that rebuilt the South's infrastructure and industrial economy under brutal conditions, enabled by the social language and legal mechanisms around Black lives that persist in America's modern mass incarceration complex. LeFlouria is the author of  Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South (UNC Press)'. -- This is Hell!