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Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Title
Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon.
ISBN
9780307472472
0307472477
9780385506250
0385506252
9780385722704
0385722702
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., [2008]
Copyright Notice Date
©2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 466 pages) : illustrations.
Summary
A sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. From the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II, under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these "debts," prisoners were sold as forced laborers to coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries, and farm plantations. Thousands of other African Americans were simply seized and compelled into years of involuntary servitude. Armies of "free" black men labored without compensation, were repeatedly bought and sold, and were forced through beatings and physical torture to do the bidding of white masters for decades after the official abolition of American slavery.--From publisher description.
Other formats
Print version: Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery by another name. 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, ©2008
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 29, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-459) and index.
Contents
A note on language
Introduction : The bricks we stand on
pt. 1. The slow poison
1. The wedding : fruits of freedom
2. An industrial slavery : "Niggers is cheap"
3. Slavery's increase : "Day after day we looked death in the face & was afraid to speak"
4. Green Cottenham's world : "The negro dies faster"
pt. 2. Harvest of an unfinished war
5. The slave farm of John Pace : "I don't owe you anything"
6. Slavery is not a crime : "We shall have to kill a thousand ... to get them back to their places"
7. The indictments : "I was whipped nearly every day"
8. A summer of trials, 1903 : "The master treated the slave unmercifully"
9. A river of anger : the South is "an armed camp"
10. The disapprobation of God : "It is a very rare thing that a negro escapes"
11. New South rising : "This great corporation." pt. 3. The final chapter of American slavery
13. The arrest of Green Cottenham : a war of atrocities
14. Anatomy of a slave mine : "Degraded to a plane lower than the brutes"
15. Everywhere was death : "Negro quietly swung up by an armed mob ... all is quiet"
16. Atlanta, the South's finest city : "I will murder you if you don't do that work"
17. Freedom : "In the United States one cannot sell himself"
Epilogue : The ephemera of catastrophe
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected bibliography.
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