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

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
ISBN-10
1848314124
ISBN-13
9781848314122
Series
Slavery by Another Name
Category
African American prisoners
Pages
468
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Icon Books Company
Author
Douglas A. Blackmon

Description

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, 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 thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.

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