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Chained in Silence by Talitha L. Leflouria explores the post-Civil War American South, focusing on how Georgia exploited its African-American prison population through convict leasing to private investors, highlighting the stories, particularly of black women, who endured brutal conditions in labor camps from 1868 to 1908 to modernize the South. The book discusses racialized and gendered violence, including severe physical abuse and rape, as mechanisms of social control.