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2020

Jails

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Shackles And Servitude: Jails And The Enslaved In Antebellum Savannah, Haley E. Osborne Apr 2020

Shackles And Servitude: Jails And The Enslaved In Antebellum Savannah, Haley E. Osborne

Honors College Theses

My research centers around the use of jails in relation to the African American community in Savannah. I will describe the evolution of the publicly funded jail system and explain how it was used to sustain the institution of slavery.

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