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For the first time in a generation chain gangs have reappeared on the roads of the American South. Associated in the past with racial terrorism; this cruel and unusual punishment should invoke strong memories. But; in the rush to embrace ever-harsher sanctions; the American public has ignored the troubling history of Southern punishment.Twice the Work of Free Labor is the first book-length study of the history of the Southern convict-lease system and its successor; the chain gang. For nearly a century after the abolition of slavery; convicts labored in the South’s mines; railroad camps; brickyards; turpentine farms and then road gangs; under abject conditions. The vast majority of these prisoners were African Americans. In this timely book; Alex Lichtenstein reveals the origins of this vicious penal slavery; explains its persistent and widespread popularity among whites; and charts its unhappy contribution to the rebirth of the South in the decades following the Civil War.The book also offers an original analysis of the post-Civil War South’s political economy. Lichtenstein suggests that; after emancipation; forced black labor was exploited not by those who yearned for the social order of the slave South; but by the region’s most ardent advocates of progress. The convict-lease and chain gang allowed a New South to rise while preserving white supremacy.