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Author:

Blackmon, Douglas A.

Title:

Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon.

Edition:

1st Anchor Books ed.

Publisher:

Anchor Books,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

x, 468 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--History--History--19th century.
African Americans--History--History--20th century.
African Americans--History.--History.
African Americans--History.--History.
African American prisoners--Social conditions.
Forced labor--United States--History.
Convict labor--United States--History.
Slavery--United States--History.
United States--History--History--19th century.
United States--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. [444]-459) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0385722702
9780385722704

OCLC:

(OCoLC)232980384

LCCN:

2009293876

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UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

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FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

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HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

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