One Dies, Get Another

"Anyone who calls himself a student/scholar of the 'New South,' the Post Reconstruction South, or the post-Civil War South will have to read this book."—Mark T. Carleton, Louisiana State University

"An important study of the rise, operation, and abandonment of convict leasing in the South from the end of the Civil War to the early twentieth century, detailing its political, cultural, and economic impacts. Based on extensive primary research, it provides a state-by-state examination of this means of labor control, one that became important to the southern adjustment to the end of slavery. It is essential reading for all concern with southern history, black history, and the history of penal institutions."—Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester