Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
by: Douglas A. Blackmon
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In this groundbreaking historical expose, 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.
Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Douglas A. Blackmon 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 shortly thereafter. By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals the stories of those who fought unsuccessfully against the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the companies that profited most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
In this groundbreaking historical expose, 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.
Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Douglas A. Blackmon 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 shortly thereafter. By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals the stories of those who fought unsuccessfully against the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the companies that profited most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
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- Sure to be a landmark in U.S. history reading
I'm sure this book will be a landmark in U.S. history reading.The author puts this ugly area of U.S. history in a new light for those of us schooled in the 20th Century.The story is told from a perspective that makes sometimes dry factual material come to life with moving accounts of the plight of neo-slavery blacks and the society that allowed this to happen.
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- Understanding
This was a very good book. The author this book captures but a small part of American history. It speaks volumes to the debate about reparations. I am not for reparations. The country that is the United States of America does not acknowledge the damage that it inflicted upon its non-European contributors to this countries growth and expansion. While this focuses on the economic, social, physical and mental oppression visited upon the former slave population it shows a people who tried to be better ... Read More
Rating: - Just what I needed
This book is not only a reminder but is evidence that there are many people who appear to be kind but are really not, and who will go to extreme lengths to justify themselves.
Rating: - Neoslavery anyone?
This is a hard book to read because it uncovers a secret ugliness that white American has been unwilling to face for decades.Recently, I went into decent bookstores looking for histories of the Jim Crow era and come away virtually empty.Sure there are books about slavery and the Civil War and the civil rights era but the period in-between was ignored.
This book tells you why.The period after 1880,in some ways a more brutal time for African Americans than slavery."Slavery by Another ... Read More
Rating: - Should be required reading for all
I recognize the irony in advocating the forced reading of a book about post-Thirteenth Amendment slavery.But I think that altogether too many people in this country indulge in a fantasy that slavery in the United States ended so long ago that it is no explanation for and should have no bearing on anything today.In other words, that slavery's a sad but currently inconsequential chapter in American history.Blackmon's very well researched tome will smash any such delusions.
Slavery by Another ... Read More
- Sure to be a landmark in U.S. history readingI'm sure this book will be a landmark in U.S. history reading.The author puts this ugly area of U.S. history in a new light for those of us schooled in the 20th Century.The story is told from a perspective that makes sometimes dry factual material come to life with moving accounts of the plight of neo-slavery blacks and the society that allowed this to happen.
- UnderstandingThis was a very good book. The author this book captures but a small part of American history. It speaks volumes to the debate about reparations. I am not for reparations. The country that is the United States of America does not acknowledge the damage that it inflicted upon its non-European contributors to this countries growth and expansion. While this focuses on the economic, social, physical and mental oppression visited upon the former slave population it shows a people who tried to be better ... Read More
- Just what I neededThis book is not only a reminder but is evidence that there are many people who appear to be kind but are really not, and who will go to extreme lengths to justify themselves.
- Neoslavery anyone?This is a hard book to read because it uncovers a secret ugliness that white American has been unwilling to face for decades.Recently, I went into decent bookstores looking for histories of the Jim Crow era and come away virtually empty.Sure there are books about slavery and the Civil War and the civil rights era but the period in-between was ignored.
This book tells you why.The period after 1880,in some ways a more brutal time for African Americans than slavery."Slavery by Another ... Read More
- Should be required reading for allI recognize the irony in advocating the forced reading of a book about post-Thirteenth Amendment slavery.But I think that altogether too many people in this country indulge in a fantasy that slavery in the United States ended so long ago that it is no explanation for and should have no bearing on anything today.In other words, that slavery's a sad but currently inconsequential chapter in American history.Blackmon's very well researched tome will smash any such delusions.
Slavery by Another ... Read More
