Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon.
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.
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- ISBN: 9780385722704
- ISBN: 0385722702
- Physical Description: x, 468 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
- Edition: 1st Anchor Books edition
- Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, 2009.
- Copyright: ©2008
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 2008. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 444-459) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: The bricks we stand on -- pt. 1. The slow poison -- pt. 2. Harvest of an unfinished war -- pt. 3. The final chapter of American slavery -- Epilogue: The ephemera of catastrophe. |
| Target Audience Note: | 1370L Lexile |
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