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Additionally, the author explores the difference between punishing criminals and trying to rehabilitate them. He also looks at how women were treated in reform institutions and how convict leasing and chain gangs in the South continued the practices of slavery, especially for black prisoners. [1] [2] [4]
Chain gang street sweepers, Washington, D. C. 1909 Female convicts in Dar es Salaam chained together by their necks, c. 1890–1927. A chain gang or road gang is a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work as a form of punishment.
During the American Civil War, a young free boy is sent north by his bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted fugitive slave. Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (Portuguese: Uma História de Amor e Fúria) 2013 A Brazilian animated drama film following important moments in Brazil's history, including slavery. Roots: 1977
Chain Gang is a 1950 American drama film directed by Lew Landers, [1] written by Howard J. Green and starring Douglas Kennedy [2] as a newspaper reporter who goes undercover to expose political corruption and the exploitation of chain-gang labor.
The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains is a 1987 American drama film directed by Daniel Mann, written by Michael Campus, and is based on the true story I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! by Robert Elliott Burns. The film stars Val Kilmer, Charles Durning, Sônia Braga, Kyra Sedgwick, James Keach, Elisha Cook, Jr. and Clancy Brown.
I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-1943-8. Nollen, Scott Allen (September 22, 2016). The Making and Influence of I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-6677-1. Lucia, Cynthia; Simon, Art; Grundmann, Roy (June 25, 2015). American Film History: Selected Readings, Origins ...
The chain gang films were produced in a similar response to the callous inhumanity of the chain gang system which was prevalent among states in the southern US. The 1932 film I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is considered the seminal movie of the genre, and was based on the autobiography of Robert E. Burns who was himself a fugitive at the ...
Films and television shows featuring prison farms and forced prison labor: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a movie released in 1932, which depicted the degrading and inhumane treatment on chain gangs in the post–World War I era. Hell's Highway (1932) Prison Farm (1938)