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Sloss Furnace Presents The Role of Convict Leasing

Presented by Birmingham Public Library at Five Points West Regional Library (BPL), Birmingham Alabama

Jun 17 2015
Sloss Furnace Presents The Role of Convict Leasing

The story of Alabama’s convict leasing system, in effect from 1866 to 1928 (last state to outlaw this horrific system), is an infamous chapter in the state’s history. Robert Patton, Alabama governor in 1865, declared that the state’s felons, rather than being housed in the penitentiary, should be “leased.” His rationale was that blacks, rapidly becoming the penitentiary’s majority population, did not regard confinement as punishment, and should “feel the hardship of labor in iron and coal ... view more »

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4812 Avenue W , Birmingham, Alabama 35208

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