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Slavery by another name: the re-enslavement of Black people in America from the Civil War to World War II

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Blackmon, Douglas A

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Doubleday

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[2008]

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1st ed

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English

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A note on language --

Introduction : The bricks we stand on --

pt. 1. The slow poison --

1. The wedding : fruits of freedom --

2. An industrial slavery : "Niggers is cheap" --

3. Slavery's increase : "Day after day we looked death in the face & was afraid to speak" --

4. Green Cottenham's world : "The negro dies faster" --

pt. 2. Harvest of an unfinished war --

5. The slave farm of John Pace : "I don't owe you anything" --

6. Slavery is not a crime : "We shall have to kill a thousand... to get them back to their places" --

7. The indictments : "I was whipped nearly every day" --

8. A summer of trials, 1903 : "The master treated the slave unmercifully" --

9. A river of anger : the South is "an armed camp" --

10. The disapprobation of God : "It is a very rare thing that a negro escapes" --

11. Slavery affirmed : "Cheap cotton depends on cheap niggers." --

12. New South rising : "This great corporation" --

pt. 3. The final chapter of American slavery --

13. The arrest of Green Cottenham : a war of atrocities --

14. Anatomy of a slave mine : "Degraded to a plane lower than the brutes" --

15. Everywhere was death : "Negro quietly swung up by an armed mob... all is quiet" --

16. Atlanta, the South's finest city : "I will murder you if you don't do that work" --

17. Freedom : "In the United States one cannot sell himself" --

Epilogue : The ephemera of catastrophe --

Acknowledgments --

Notes --

Selected bibliography --

Index.

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Subjects

African American prisoners
African American prisoners -- Social conditions
African Americans
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century
African Americans -- Crimes against -- History
African Americans -- Employment -- History
African Americans. -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights
Convict labor
Convict labor -- United States -- History
Crimes against
Employment
Forced labor
Forced labor -- United States -- History
History
Race relations
Slavery
Slavery -- United States -- History
Social conditions
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century

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9780385506250

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