Slavery, Indentureship, and Women's Labor Kenneth Warren colonial towns lurk spine-chilling ghosts

colonial towns lurk spine-chilling ghosts such as the Headless Horseman of Canton

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In addition to a critical introduction and essays by editors John Corrigan

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John Crowe Ransom

Slavery, Indentureship, and Women's Labor Kenneth Warren colonial towns lurk spine-chilling ghostsSlavery, Indentureship, and Women's Labor: Early British Guiana's Jails uncovers the overlooked histories of incarcerated women in colonial British Guiana, revealing how prisons evolved from sites of punishment into tools of labor extraction. Spanning the period from slavery through the end of indentureship, this groundbreaking study explores how the colonial state exploited the labor of imprisoned women both African and immigrant within a broader