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

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Blackmon, Douglas A

Publisher

Doubleday

Publication Date

c2008

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1st ed.

Language

English

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Marblehead - Adult Nonfiction
305.896 BLACKMON 2008
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A Note on Language

Introduction: The Bricks We Stand On

Part 1. 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 2. 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, 1903: "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 3. 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 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 -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Crimes against -- History
African Americans -- Employment -- History
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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