Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. (Mar.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Wall Street Journal bureau chief Blackmon gives a groundbreaking and disturbing account of a sordid chapter in American history—the lease (essentially the sale) of convicts to commercial interests between the end of the 19th century and well into the 20th. All rights reserved. The initial sentence was brutal enough; the actual penalty, reserved almost exclusively for black men, was a form of slavery in one of hundred

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By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals the stories of those who fought unsuccessfully against the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the companies that profited most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.“The genius of Blackmon’s book is that it illuminates both the real human tragedy and the profoundly corrupting nature of the Old South slavery as it transformed to establish a New South social order.” — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution“A formidably researched, powerfully written, wrenchingly detailed narrative.” — St. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history — an “Age of Neoslavery” that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves a

Astounding Wayne B. Norris Until I read this book, I was not aware that, for 80 years, Black Americans were imprisoned by the tens of thousands on ridiculous charges, such as "loud talking", whenever labor was needed, "sold" as conscript laborers to farmers, miners, turpentine producers, and brick producers, and forced to work in worse-. "The War to End Slavery Didn't" according to David Swanson. As documented in Douglas Blackmon's book, Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, the institution of slavery in the U.S. South largely ended for as long as 20 years in some places upon completion of the U.S. civil war. And then it was back again, in a . "This is a good book for people who are interested in southern history" according to Kaitlyn Morar. While the text can seem a bit drawn out, overall, the text succeeds in bringing to life atrocities committed against African Americans after the end of the civil war. This topic is not often described in quite the way it is described in this text. In short, certain segments of the south (spotlighted here is Al