chain-gangs

"Battered chain-gangs of the orlop, grizzled draughts of years gone by ..."

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This is not a world of plow-shares and chain-gangs, a world of steam boats and, yes, horse carriages.

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The people who really built the city can be seen in long chain-gangs by the side of the road, or toiling all day at the top of the tallest buildings in the world, in heat that Westerners are told not to stay in for more than 10 minutes.

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Yeah, sure, on chain-gangs wearing orange jump-suits.

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Most of the convicts leased out in the South, and almost all of the prisoners on the chain-gangs, were black; and indeed, as Edward L. Ayers has put it, the lease system was merely “part of a continuum of forced labor in the New South,” a continuum which ran from the “monopolistic company store,” through sharecropping and the peonage system, all the way to the “complete subjugation of convict labor.”

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

Most of the convicts leased out in the South, and almost all of the prisoners on the chain-gangs, were black; and indeed, as Edward L. Ayers has put it, the lease system was merely “part of a continuum of forced labor in the New South,” a continuum which ran from the “monopolistic company store,” through sharecropping and the peonage system, all the way to the “complete subjugation of convict labor.”

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

Most of the convicts leased out in the South, and almost all of the prisoners on the chain-gangs, were black; and indeed, as Edward L. Ayers has put it, the lease system was merely “part of a continuum of forced labor in the New South,” a continuum which ran from the “monopolistic company store,” through sharecropping and the peonage system, all the way to the “complete subjugation of convict labor.”

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

Bulldozers and gluttons are born under the Lion, and women and fugitives and chain-gangs are born under the Virgin.

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I had so often heard the minister preach 'servants obey your masters;' also to the slave pens, chain-gangs, and a cruel master and mistress, all of which I hoped to leave forever.

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The "chain-gangs" he also saw in constant operation.

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. William Still