Slaves of the state : black incarceration from the chain gang to the penitentiary / Dennis Childs.

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]

©2015.

259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-246) and index.

"You ain't seen nothin' yet": Beloved and the middle passage carceral model -- "Except as punishment for a crime": the thirteenth amendment and the rebirth of chattel imprisonment -- Angola penitentiary: the once and future slave plantation -- The warfare of northern neoslavery in Chester Himes's Yesterday Will Make You Cry.