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Original – A Southern US chain gang circa 1903. This system of punishment had a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work, including repairing buildings, building roads, or clearing land. The system was phased out in the United States in the 1950s.
Reason
High quality scan of an illustrative historical image. I'm surprised we don't have any FPs of chain gangs.
Articles in which this image appears
Chain gang
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others
Creator
Detroit Publishing Co; restored by Scewing

Promoted File:A Southern chain gang c1903-restore.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 22:21, 27 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]