Episode 8 | Historian Talitha L. LeFlouria on Convict Labor and the Criminalization of Black Women’s Lives

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal sits down with historian Talitha L. LeFlouria,

Author of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South (UNC Press). Dr. LeFlouria is associate professor of African American Studies in the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia. Chained in Silence won the 2016 Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization of American Historians and the 2016 Philip Taft Labor History Award from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations & Labor and Working-Class History Association.