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Author
Language
English
Description
"In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 464 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The House of the Dead is a history of Siberia with a focus on the last four tsars (1801-1917). Daniel Beer explores the massive penal colony that became an incubator for the radicalism of revolutionaries who would one day rule Russia"--Provided by publisher.
8) The crisis of imprisonment: protest, politics, and the making of the American penal state, 1776-1941
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xiii, 505 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
9) Slavery by another name: the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Anchor Books ed.
Lexile measure
1370L
Physical Desc
x, 468 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. From the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II, under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these "debts," prisoners were sold...