| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Canada and the United States

Robert David Ward and William Warren Rogers. Alabama's Response to the Penitentiary Movement, 1829–1865. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2003. Pp. xii, 163. $55.00.

In several publications, over the course of long, productive careers, Robert David Ward and William Warren Rogers surveyed Alabama's penal system within the context of the state's economic and political development and as a post-Civil War mechanism for racial control. The convict-lease system provided Alabama's burgeoning coal industry with a compliant labor force until a series of mining accidents and scandals brought the system to an end. In this volume, the authors move backward to the state's antebellum years. In this well-researched and articulate study, the authors found a striking lack of continuity between pre- and post-Civil War era prison affairs.

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