"Portions of the text were previously published as 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Cuts Cordwood : Exploring Black Women's Lives and Labor in Georgia's Convict Camps, 1865-1917,' Labor : Studies in ...
Incarcerated people work in a rock quarry, possibly Keith Quarry near Palmetto, Georgia, around 1948. (Photograph courtesy of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution via Georgia State University.) This is ...