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"In the overdue 19th and early 20th centuries imprisoned black ladies confronted wrenching types of gendered racial terror and heinous constructions of financial exploitation. uncovered to violence and rape, subjugated on chain gangs and as convict employees, and compelled to serve overtime as family employees earlier than they have been allowed their freedom, black ladies confronted a pitiless approach of violence, terror, and Read more...
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The convict camp was a location ruled by the sovereignty of the prison administration, its overseer and guards, a sovereignty that was enforced by the unfettered power to injure. Eliza Cobb’s story is representative of the experience of black women in general, whose sentences to convict labor included gendered forms of racial terror including rape and the attendant violence of compulsory childbirth and familial estrangement. 24 She was the deviant body required to make Martha Gault’s idealized body real, to give it political, cultural, and social meaning.
65 The black female juridical subject in the courtroom was a deviation from the idealized black female worker in the home. Stories of black women being policed and imprisoned performed necessary work in the white cultural imagination to reinforce their access to black women’s domestic labor. When they strayed from the position of domestic worker by stepping out of line in the streets they faced punishment. The street was punishing; it was the landscape of arrest and the site of carcerality as shackled black female bodies were made to construct and maintain the very same roads upon which they were policed, breaking rocks on local chain gangs.
57 Their assertions that a white woman was the only woman in state or local convict camps were often, but not always, true yet the reiteration of the exceptionality of white female imprisonment upheld the legitimacy of the entire system. The mainstream press tended to present imprisoned white women as subjects in need of rescue and accounts often emphasized ongoing efforts to secure their pardons. 58 Because white women’s imprisonment was rare, a fact that journalists Carceral Constructions of Black Female Deviance 33 invariably noted alongside appeals that they be released, discourses about convict labor upheld the gender and racial order of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century South.