The Whipping Boss

1924

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Prison inmates are leased by the state to a lumber company that makes them work under atrocious and dangerous conditions and treats them as virtual slave laborers. Based on a real-life incid... Read allPrison inmates are leased by the state to a lumber company that makes them work under atrocious and dangerous conditions and treats them as virtual slave laborers. Based on a real-life incident that happened in Florida.Prison inmates are leased by the state to a lumber company that makes them work under atrocious and dangerous conditions and treats them as virtual slave laborers. Based on a real-life incident that happened in Florida.

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Under the Lash

One of the chain gang members is a Civil War veteran in this gritty precursor by over forty years of 'Cool Hand Luke' which makes it plain that profiting from slave labour didn't end with the South's surrender.