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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] . The system was notably used in the convict era of Australia and in the Southern United States.
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...
May 3, 2021 · May 3, 2021. Rembert’s “All Me II” (2005). The chain gang was ruthless, he observed: “I had to take on all these personalities. I only wanted to be one of them, but the one I wanted to be I...
- Winfred Rembert
" Chain Gang " is a song by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, released as a single on July 26, 1960. Background. This was Cooke's second-biggest American hit, his first hit single for RCA Victor after leaving Keen Records earlier in 1959, and was also his first top 10 hit since "You Send Me" from 1957, and his second-biggest pop single.
- "I Fall in Love Every Day"
- July 26, 1960
- January 25, 1960, RCA Studio A, (New York City)
Feb 12, 2012 · Slavery by Another Name | Clip | The Significance of the Chain Gang. Historian Talitha LeFlouria explains the chain gang system, population breakdown and its significance in the South.
views 1,344,370 updated. 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.
