Convict Labor and the Building of Modern America-U.S.

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Historical Background 
Primary Sources         
Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, “Slavery and Involuntary Servitude,” 1865   
“The New Slavery in the South: An Autobiography by a Georgia Negro Peon,” Independent, February 25, 1904     
Convicts Working on a Railroad (postcard photograph), 1915  
Letter from Ezekiel Archey and Ambrose Haskins to the President of the Alabama Board of Inspectors of Convicts, January 26, 1884   
“Juvenile Convicts at Work in a Field” (photograph), 1903   
Recordings of Women Prisoners Singing at the Goree State Prison Farm in Texas, 1939     
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