About this title: Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history, the late 1870s through the 1940s when thousands of African-American men were arbitrarily arrested, hit with fines, charged for room and board in state and county jails, and then forced to work off the debt as unpaid laborers.
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Your search:Books» Author: Blackmon Douglas» Title: Slavery by Another Name»Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II(65 available copies)
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2008-03-25
ISBN-13:9780385506250ISBN:0385506252
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780385722704ISBN:0385722702
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780385722704ISBN:0385722702
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Underlining in text. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 468 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 2008-03-25
ISBN-13:9780385506250ISBN:0385506252
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"Although I felt that 100-150 pages could've been shaved off of this book, I nonetheless feel that it's an extremely important addition to the canon of reconstruction era literature. It deals with a topic that is not only not widely recognized but also actively ignored by our collective American consciousness. The author explicitly states that the reason for his undertaking is to actively combat our national ignorance, and I applaud him in that regard. Thought it's a story that for those of us familiar with the systematic oppression of black folk throughout American history is not surprising, is nonetheless simultaneously disgusting and devastating. An unpleasant yet necessary read."
"Wow. This book is proof that if you want truth you have to be a seeker. There is so much that has been lost in the shame of our nation's past and entangled in modern myths.
The truth that Blackmon uncovers about post-emancipation, American industrial slave complex's domination over Southern economy and national morality will force a revision of the history you have always known as truth. As a former Atlanta resident it was moving to learn the historical significance behind the parks that I made good use of and the buildings that painted my days as I passed through the city. It's really good. Read it."
"Astonishing, and embarrassing to me that it is astonishing to me. I knew about Jim Crow and the destruction of Reconstruction (am assigning Budiansky's The Bloody Shirt, about the vicious Southern campaign to destroy any semblance of progress, which started about three minutes after the Civil War ended), but nothing about this whole Southern edifice of compelled labor (ie slavery) that cropped up around the turn of the century and lasted until WWII. Local courts complied, law enforcement raked in cash for sentencing hapless local African-Americans for vagrancy, the federal government messed around for a few minutes and then withdrew its support. I suppose we should all be embarrassed, since the reviews pretty uniformly say that the story was hidden from view, but still. As Blackmom mentions, the worst historical irony is that all the famous chain-gang stories (I Was a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Cool Hand Luke, deal with the more or less insignificant problem of white chain-gang inmates."
"Beyond excellent. What Blackmon refers to as the Age of Neoslavery has been poorly understood by generations of Americans - often willfully so. As someone who considered himself reasonably well informed about post-Reconstruction political realities and Jim Crow segregation, I found in "Slavery by Another Name" a lesson in my own ignorance that was impossible to ignore. In his epilogue, he writes: "Certainly the great record of forced labor across the South demands that any consideration of the progress of civil rights remedy in the United States must acknowledge that slavery, real slavery, didn't end until 1945 - well into the childhoods of the black Americans who are only now reaching retirement age." The story of that 20th century slavery is gruesome for many, many reasons... and it deserves to be heard."
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