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   chain gang

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   • 1. a group of convicts chained together while working outside the prison.

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   What is a chain gang?

   • A chain gang or road gang is a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work as a form of punishment. Such punishment might include repairing buildings, building roads, or clearing land. The system was notably used in the convict era of Australia and in the Southern United States.

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   How did chain gangs develop?

   • Chain gangs developed as a popular solution to that problem. Chain gangs were groups of convicts forced to labor at tasks such as road construction, ditch digging, or farming while chained together. Some chain gangs toiled at work sites near the prison, while others were housed in transportable jails such as railroad cars or trucks.

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   What were chain gangs in the Civil War?

   • Chain GangsNearly half a century after the Civil War, the southern states’ prison systems, with a largely black population, comprised two models of outdoor convict labor: The prison farm and the road chain gang. Source for information on Chain Gangs: Encyclopedia of Race and Racism dictionary.

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   How did chain gangs help convicts?

   • Though many citizens and politicians wanted to abolish convict leasing, the problem of the expense and difficulty of housing convicts remained. Chain gangs developed as a popular solution to that problem. Chain gangs were groups of convicts forced to labor at tasks such as road construction, ditch digging, or farming while chained together.

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   A chain gang or road gang is a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work as a form of punishment. Such punishment might include repairing buildings, building roads, or clearing land. [ 1 ]

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   Chain Gangs. Nearly half a century after the Civil War, the southern states’ prison systems, with a largely black population, comprised two models of outdoor convict labor: The prison farm and the road chain gang.

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   Chain gangs were groups of convicts forced to labor at tasks such as road construction, ditch digging, or farming while chained together. Some chain gangs toiled at...

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   Get the full, detailed list of 1999 Resolutions. Download Now. The NAACP will urge all of its Units to work within its states to prohibit actively the use of "Chain Gang" workforces and support any and all legislation authored to abolish such practices in our penal institutions.

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   The meaning of CHAIN GANG is a group of people (such as convicts) chained together especially as an outside working party.

10. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Chain_gangingChain ganging - Wikipedia

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    Chain ganging is a term in the field of international relations describing the elevated probability for interstate conflict or conflagration due to several states having joined in alliances or coalitions.

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    Feb 12, 2012 · Historian Talitha LeFlouria explains the chain gang system, population breakdown and its significance in the South.