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The Cheesborough Review / Field Notes & Public Memory
Investigations into institutional power, juvenile justice, racialized punishment, and the people too often reduced to a line in someone else's record.
The USF investigation into deaths and burials at the former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, read alongside handbooks, photographs, and institutional reports.
Fortune Ferguson's family history and the Newberry Six belong together through Newberry geography, community, and the records of their families.
Handbooks, reports, photographs, and survivor-centered research become stronger evidence when read together and kept in context.
J. C. Powell's The American Siberia stands alone as a source-led investigation of convict leasing, prison labor, camp administration, and state power.
Enter the Florida prison system research →Further topics / research paths
These investigations are deliberately distinct. Each page names its evidence, shows its limits, and leads readers to the underlying documents, images, maps, and transcriptions.
1891 prison memoir, convict labor, Black guards, prisoner identities, census authentication, and the Sy Wilson/Cyrus Williams date chain.
Explore Powell research →Fortune's family record alongside the families of the Newberry Six, with genealogy questions kept separate from unsupported conclusions.
Explore family history →Institutional reports, forensic findings, maps, photographs, school records, and the gap between official language and lived experience.
Explore Dozier research →Descriptive access to the relevant PDFs, spreadsheets, JPGs, PNGs, maps, court records, and archival scans used across the site.
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