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

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In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. 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.

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 ostensible “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 by southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude. Government officials leased falsely imprisoned blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers, and dozens of corporations—including U.S. Steel—looking for cheap and abundant labor. 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.
The neoslavery system exploited legal loopholes and federal policies that discouraged prosecution of whites for continuing to hold black workers against their wills. As it poured millions of dollars into southern government treasuries, the new slavery also became a key instrument in the terrorization of African Americans seeking full participation in the U.S. political system.

Based on a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Slavery by Another Name unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude. It also reveals the stories of those who fought unsuccessfully against the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the modern companies that profited most from neoslavery, and the system’s final demise in the 1940s, partly due to fears of enemy propaganda about American racial abuse at the beginning of World War II.
Slavery by Another Name is a moving, sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.

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Neoslavery flourished in the North also, especially in the factories after black migrations from the South to the North. Many reviewers of this book, and this book itself, concentrate too much on the Southern United States. While these states certainly deserve the blame, Northern states are too often ignored. One of the largest mass-lynching of blacks occurred in New York City itself. Ironically, while many historians have called slavery a way for "poor Southern whites to look down on someone so as to make themselves feel superior", too many contemporary Americans look down upon their Southern brothers and sisters in much the same way.Still, this book is excellent.

Mr. When you write about the past you cannot remove the actors from the cultural milieu in which they lived.Few persons in any era are able to transcend the intellectual strictures of their time. How could they hate people who did nothing to them. One that is not surprising considering Jim Crow and the terrorism of the KKK; but tragic and disguting nonetheless.My quibble with the book is not the information, but Mr. Human beings are cruel, wicked, creatures. Blackmon's blanket treatment of Whites.Mr. Blackmon's book sheds light on a little known part of our past. These were people of their time.That aside, the horrific treatment and numerous examples of mob violence cited throughout the book made one quiver with rage.Even accepting the mentality of time, these events were still shockingly brutal.

Blackmon is quick to condemn ALL whites as racist even those who made some effort to combat convict leasing.Mr. Blackmon makes the same error that many writers do--he applies modern standards to persons who died long before those standards were set.That is major flaw in many works of history, not just this one. How could they justify the barbarous treatment they meted out to blacks.Having read books about genocide, the Holocaust, and of war in general, I can say that this type of anti-social behavior is not specific to Americans. This book exquisitely details yet another sorry epoch in the annal of man's inhumanity to their fellow man.

Don't read this book. Rich and powerful men and corporations, devoid of scruples, colluded and bought and sold African-Americans at county courthouses throughout the South in a system tantamount to slavery. You know, you've got to kick a dog when he's down. It is an old relic of evolution --- you know, survival of the fittest and all that crap. It's kind of like what you often see with respect to some of the rich and powerful individuals and corporations over against some undocumented immigrants today. And it continues well after evolution has passed beyond the notion of just picking on the poor and the meek and exploiting them to something more sophisticated that assimilates the poor and meek into the process of all of mankind getting along in the world for the greater good. I say that in the vein of Br'er Rabbit's, "Don't throw me in that briar patch." Exploitation of the downtrodden by some rich and powerful people and corporations is nothing new here in America or elsewhere in the world, and it seems to never vanish. They, in collusion with some of the local authorities in government , utilized trumpped-up criminal charges against the newly-emancipated men and women to gain control over them once again.

You know, like loving your neighbor as yourself. Blackmon does his job in this comprehensive work of chronicling the history of how exploitation --- or, as he makes amply plain, slavery --- played out in America in the most horrific way after the Civil War and on up until almost the Civil Rights Movement. Then they utilized outrageous fees, insurmountable for the impoverished newly-emancipated men and women to pay, to keep them in their thrall year in and year out until the new "slaves" died horrible deaths. This is a book of awesome research and deliberate storytelling that, if you have any humanity in your veins at all, will bring tears to your eyes, and, hopefully, an intention to do something about it.

Well researched analysis of struggles faced by Black Americans prior to the civil rights movement.

And a Whitfield was married to Andrew Cargnie of U. America has alot of denial about it's history. One Whitfield even wrote Lincoln. Being slave owners of over 4000 slaves in 1860 and over 12 plantations from NC to Texas. A well-researched book. I have read 1000's of history books on Slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, Minnesota(where I'm from). He has won the Pulitizer for this book and he deserves it. They did'nt, they did it in another name.

Until we are honest with each other we cannot heal of it. Steel. I am researching my family the Whitfields in Alabama and came across a convict list dated 1879, I did'nt really understand what it meant till I read this book. I have found in researching that people black and white don't want to talk about what really happened. S. How could they give all that up. Slavery by another name goes along way in being honest about it. This has been one of the best.