Talitha L. Leflouria discusses and describes her Grandma Leola of Troup County, Georgia. Initially, Leflouria informs the reader that she would spend most of Saturdays at her great-grandparents home. Grandma Leola was renowned for efficiencies at various skills related to traditional country living in the South during the 20th century. She also describes her mother as someone that was loving, inviting, and rugged around the edges too. Grandma Leola would share stories to Leflouria about her life, and sometimes she would even tell her about life in the Rough Edge. The Rough Edge was a rural farming town on the outer edge of LaGrange, Georgia. It is here that the Talitha L. Leflouria begins to expose the reader to infamous chain gangs, including female chain gangs, that Troup County, Georgia was known for during her great-grandmothers lifetime. Chained in Silence was written to illustrate and uncover the overlooked history of female African …show more content…
She builds off other historians’ research by discussing white authority both politically and economically to better expose the experiences of black females in the convict labor industry used to reconstruct the New South. LaGrange, Georgia was notorious for these chain gangs and lessening systems used by companies to further their shareholder’s own wealth. Within these labor programs, often filled with high numbers of those convicted of murder, most women often worked right alongside their counter parts. Leflouria uses many statistical data collected through prison records, present-day newspapers, and other records to show how black female convicts were used for a variety of jobs. She also takes the reader on a painful illustration of the cruel treatment that these women faced as punishment. By doing this she explains the different value that black women had before and after