[CRIME & PUNISHMENT]. Press photograph of African American prisoners working on a Florida farm. New York: Keystone View Co., ca 1910s.  

8 x 5 1/4 in. silver gelatin press photograph (edges curling upwards, few small pinholes in margins). Applied paper label with typed caption on verso.  

View of convict laborers working on the Bradford Farm in Florida. Headed, "State asks that 'Convict Farm' be wiped out," the caption states, in part, "The state of North Dakota has formally demanded that the State of Florida wipe out the 'convict farm,' which means practical slavery for the convicts." The demand came following the death of a young North Dakota farmer named Martin Tabert, who was arrested while visiting Florida for "stealing a ride," then killed by a "'convict-labor' whipping boss" while working on one of the "convict farms."