Douglas A. Blackmon

Slavery by Another Name (eBook, ePUB)

The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in "The Age of Neoslavery." By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented Pulitzer Prize-winning 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. Following the Emancipation Proclamation, convicts-mostly black men-were "leased" through forced labor camps operated by state and federal governments. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history. "An astonishing book. . . . It will challenge and change your understanding of what we were as Americans-and of what we are." -Chicago Tribune

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307472472
• Artikelnr.: 39204776

Autorenporträt

A native of Leland, Mississippi, Doug Blackmon is the Wall Street Journal's Atlanta Bureau Chief. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and their two children.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents:
A Note on Language
Introduction: The Bricks We Stand On
PART ONE: THE SLOW POISON
I. THE WEDDING
Fruits of Freedom
II. AN INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY
"Niggers is cheap."
III. SLAVERY'S INCREASE
"Day after day we looked Death in the face & was afraid to speak."
IV. GREEN COTTENHAM'S WORLD
"The negro dies faster"
PART TWO: HARVEST OF AN UNFINISHED WAR
V. THE SLAVE FARM OF JOHN PACE
"I don't owe you anything."
VI. SLAVERY IS NOT A CRIME
"We shall have to kill a thousand...to get them back to their places."
VII. THE INDICTMENTS
"I was whipped nearly every day."
VIII. A SUMMER OF TRIALS
"The master treated the slave unmercifully."
IX. A RIVER OF ANGER
The South Is "an armed camp."
X. THE DISAPPROBATION OF GOD
"It is a very rare thing that a negro escapes."
XI. SLAVERY AFFIRMED
"Cheap cotton depends on cheap niggers."
XII. NEW SOUTH RISING
"This great corporation."
PART THREE: THE FINAL CHAPTER OF AMERICAN SLAVERY
XIII. THE ARREST OF GREEN COTTENHAM
A War of Atrocities
XIV. ANATOMY OF A SLAVE MINE
"Degraded to a plane lower than the brutes."
XV. EVERYWHERE WAS DEATH
"Negro Quietly Swung Up by an Armed Mob...All is quiet."
XVI. ATLANTA, THE SOUTH'S FINEST CITY
"I will murder you if you don't do that work."
XVII. FREEDOM
"in the United States on cannot sell himself"
EPILOGUE
The Ephemera of Catastrophe
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index