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Rice University – Fondren Library: Woodson Research Center

https://digitalprojects.rice.edu/wrc/convict-leasing/exhibits/show/sugarlandconvictleasing/history-of-convict-leasing

Texas State Historical Association

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/jnc01

Fear, Force, and Leather - The Texas Prison System's First Hundred Years, 1848-1948

https://www.tsl.texas.gov/exhibits/prisons/convictlease/page1.html

Book List

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

by Douglas Blackmon Year Published:

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Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
by Talitha Leflouria Year Published:

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Texas Tough
by Robert Perkinson Year Published:

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Through many dangers, toils, and snares: black leadership in Texas, 1868 - 1898
by Merline Pitre Year Published:

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Penology for Profit: A History of the Texas Prison System 1867 - 1912
by Donald Walker Year Published:

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