Talitha
LeFlouria
Scholar, Author, and Authority on the History of African American Women and Mass Incarceration
Appearances
Slavery by Another Name
Dr. LeFlouria has done extensive research on the South’s shift from slave state to carceral state in the half-century following the American Civil War. She had the opportunity to expound on her work and shared sobering statistics about how black women were used within the system in the documentary, Slavery by Another Name.
Podcasts
News
Chained in Silence
Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The resulting convict leasing system ensnared not only men but also African American women, who were forced to labor in camps and factories to make profits for private investors. In this vivid work of history, Talitha L. LeFlouria draws from a rich array of primary sources to piece together the stories of these women, recounting what they endured in Georgia’s prison system and what their labor accomplished.