Press & Publications

News and Press Articles

Margie Mason and Robin McDowell. 2022. “Locked Up: The Prison Labor that Built Business Empires.” Reveal News. September 17, 2022. Podcast available here.

Ian Round. 2022. “Proposed amendment would ban slavery as punishment for a crime.” Daily Memphian. October 3, 2022. Article available here.

Frances V. Moulder. 2021. “One Woman’s Complicity.” Linked Through Slavery. August 4. Article available here.

Andrew Yawn. 2022. “‘25 years of misery’: The search for the lost graves of Tennessee’s leased convicts.” The Tennessean. April 9, 2022. Article available here.

Leslie Lytle. 2022. “Lone Rock Stockade: ‘A Worse Slavery’.” Sewanee Mountain Messenger. February 24, 2022. Article available here.

Kate Parrish. 2020. “Ghosts of Lone Rock.” Sewanee Features. Article available here.

Publications for the Public

Camille Westmont. February 25, 2021. “The New American Slavery.” Lecture given at the University of the South, Sewanee, TN. Recording available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueWQ_8YS8PE

Camille Westmont. September 9, 2020. “Unearthing Convict Leasing in Southern Middle Tennessee.” Tennessee Council for Professional Archaeology’s 30 Days of Tennessee Archaeology 2020. Blog post available here.

Camille Westmont. September 24, 2021. “Creating a Sustainable Public Archaeology Program at the Lone Rock Stockade through Community Partnerships.” Tennessee Council for Professional Archaeology’s 30 Days of Tennessee Archaeology 2021. Blog post available here.

Camille Westmont. September 9, 2020. “Excavating the Tennessee Convict Lease War at the Lone Rock Stockade.” Tennessee Council for Professional Archaeology’s 30 Days of Tennessee Archaeology 2022. Blog post available here.

Academic Publications

Camille Westmont and Cayla Colclasure. 2023. “ An Archaeology of Convict Leasing in the American South.” Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage. Article available here.

Camille Westmont. 2022. “Dark Heritage in the New South: Remembering Convict Leasing in Southern Middle Tennessee through Community Archaeology.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology 26(1): 1-21. Article available here.

Camille Westmont. 2022. “Archaeological Narratives as Critical Public Archaeology: Illuminating the Realities of Part and Present Forced Prison Labor through Story.” In Critical Public Archaeology, edited by V. Camille Westmont, 140-158. Chapter available here.