Slavery by Another Name (37 page)

"Warden and his pack after capture," at Sprague Junction labor

camp in Alabama. Photograph taken sometime in the 1890s.

A prisoner receiving punishment in a Georgia labor camp.

Photograph by John L. Spivak.

A 1905 scene from Thomas W. Dixon Jr.'s white supremacist

stageplay The Clansman. From a postcard distributed by opponents

of the drama's racist message.

Black convicts forced to work in Thomasvil e, Georgia, in the late

1880s. Photograph by Joseph John Kirkbride.

James Fletcher Turner.

W. D. McCurdy, baron of Lowndes County, Alabama.

U.S. At orney Warren S. Reese Jr.

John T. Milner.

John W. Pace.

U.S. District Court Judge Thomas G. Jones.

An 1880s political pamphlet distributed in Georgia by opponents

of the convict labor system.

Federal courthouse and post of ice in Montgomery Alabama. Scene

of the slavery and peonage trials of 1903. H. P. Tresslar Publisher,

Montgomery Alabama.

Abandoned convict "keep" at a lime quarry in Lee County Alabama.

Photography by E. W. Russel , 1937.