perkinson2010
@Book{ perkinson2010,
author = {Robert Perkinson},
title = {Texas Tough: the Rise of {A}merica's Prison Empire},
address = {New York},
publisher = {Metropolitan Books},
year = 2010,
}
On the founding of a cotton mill at the Huntsville State Penitentiary in the 1850s:
Texas’s “factory system” thus completed an economic circuit based entirely on unfree labor: slaves produced the raw materials, which convicts then converted to textiles, which then ingloriously covered those same slaves toiling in the fields (78).