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

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 ar...

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Main Author: Blackmon, Douglas A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, ©2008.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.