Talitha L. LeFlouria, "Chained in Silence: A History of Black Women and Convict Labor"

Lecture by award-winning historian Talitha L. LeFlouria (University of Virginia) on the plight of post-Civil War black women prisoners and their day-to-day struggles to overcome work-related abuses and violence, based on LeFlouria's award winning book. This event was the 2016 UMass/Five College Graduate Program in History Distinguished Annual Lecture and a part of the 2016-2017 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series. October, 2016. Image Credit: "Freedom" by Ronnie Goodman,

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Talitha L. LeFlouria, "Chained in Silence: A History of Black Women and Convict Labor" is an episode from UMass Amherst History Department by UMass Amherst History Department.

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This episode was published on Nov 1, 2016.

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