Convict Leasing Records from Tracy City, Tennesse between 1870-1896
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- convictleasingproject
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- Convict Leasing Records from Tracy City, Tennesse between 1870-1896
- Timestamp
- 10/7/2021 18:49:46
- URL for full object
- https://fromthepage.com/slaveryproject/convict-leasing-project
- Citation for full object
- âTracy City Convict Leasing Project.â Accessed 2021. https://fromthepage.com/slaveryproject/convict-leasing-project.
- Filename in shared drive folder
- convictLeasingProject
- General description of the complete original artifact
- Between 1870 and 1896, the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company utilized convict labor from Tracy City to feed their blast furnaces and as dogsbodies around the industrial facilities. The work was brutal and highly dangerous, as shown by the "injuries" column on some sheets. These men were essentially slaves to the corporation, as they never saw a penny from their labor or received any compensation for injury or death from their time spent with the Coal and Iron Company. The records tracked age, "color", county, crime, sentence commencement, length of term, height, weight, eye color, hair color, and marks
- Estimated number of records in data set
- 4185
- Estimated number of fields if this were a database
- 12
- Estimated time to digitize all records in set (hours)
- 34
- Time period when data was created
- 1870-1896
- Organization creating data
- Tennessee Coal and Iron Co.
- Individual who created data (if known or guessable).
- Unknown
- Shortcomings of this taxonomy for data set (if any)
- Marks- very subjective descriptions.
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- Resolution on the viewing portal is much higher, please forgive the blurry photo-- they degrade the file in downloading off the site.
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