From the Plantation to the Prison: African-American Confinement Literature

by Tara T. Green

Book Overview

According to George Jackson, black men born in the US are conditioned to accept the inevitability of being imprisoned.... "Being born a slave in a captive society and never experiencing any objective basis for expectation had the effect of preparing me for the progressively traumatic misfortune that led so many black men to the prison gate. I was prepared for prison. It required only minor psychic adjustments." As Jackson writes from his prison...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881460907
• ISBN13: 9780881460902
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Mercer University Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"