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“Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II” is a must-read for anyone interested in gaining a painfully honest grasp of American history. Douglas A. Blackmon is the author of this awesome and beautiful book. Douglas is a wonderful author who can take the complex and break it down into easily understandable information. In what may well be one of the most important works in non-fiction to emerge in the 21st Century, investigative journalist, Blackmon, has authored a compelling and compassionate examination of slavery’s evolution, practice and influence reaching far into the 20th Century. Blackmon’s, Slavery by Another Name, is certainly a prizeworthy study by a writer whose acumen for the highest in journalistic standards combined with an unusual gift for storytelling makes this historic work both enlightening and inspiring. Blackmon contends in “Slavery by Another Name” that from the end of Reconstruction forward a highly evolved legal and brutal apartheid system designed to purposely disenfranchise black Americans emerged and thrived in the former Confederate states. For many black American men, this system not only revoked their freedom but frequently found them arrested on baseless charges and subject to re-enslavement under an inhuman regime of convict leasing. Convict leasing, where black prisoners were treated worse than slaves, is the primary economic force that provided the emerging industrial base of the new South the power to become so successful. Blackmon recreates the little known history of the re-enslavement of black Americans throughout the South from the 1870s all the way through the 1940s. The story is told partly through the saga of one victim, a young man named Green Cottenham, who lasted all of five months in the convict leasing system before dying of disease under the most ignoble of conditions. While the author’s focus is mainly on Alabama the whole of the area where the new slavery took place is amply covered. The author also does not shy away from the indifference of the Northern populace, and the cynical collusion of Northern businesses and investors in perpetuating what could only be called Neoslavery.

“Slavery by Another Name” is a book that will answer many questions as to why it took a century after the Civil War for meaningful equality to be delivered to black Americans. The answers are haunting. The human toll of the southern apartheid regime is a heavyweight throughout the book. “Slavery by Another Name” is a book that should make many Americans question and confront their national history. Indeed, Mr. Blackmon goes far beyond these traditional understandings of racial practices, and brings new, deeper knowledge of how slavery had merely been retooled to accommodate the unforeseen realities of emancipation, allowing it to flourish for many more decades in what Blackmon calls the “Age of Neoslavery”. Resulting from the recent history-making speech on race by Presidential hopeful, Illinois Senator Barack Obama, there is a huge public interest in reaching a more comprehensive understanding of race relations in our nation. The fact is, public response to Sen. Obama’s speech has uncapped an overwhelming outpouring of public interest, writings, and dialogue. Mr. Blackmon had a similar experience back in 2001 when his article appeared in the Wall Street Journal on how U.S. Steel Corp. relied on the forced labor of Blacks. This too received massive public response expressing appreciation and sincere interest to learn more. Hence, after 7 years of exhaustive research and interviews, Slavery by Another Name arrives at a time our nation, facing a historic general election, is contemplating race as never before. And Mr. Blackmon’s pioneering work is helping us to break new ground toward a path of greater insight and reconciliation. Ultimate “Slavery by Another Name” is an excellent book that outlines exactly how the practice of slavery transformed into forced labor under the guise of “imprisonment.” It provides great details into how the practices worked and became even viler than slavery itself. A must-read for every white American.

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Name: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Author: Douglas A. Blackmon
ISBN: 0385506252
Language: English
Genre: African American Demographic Studies, United States History,
Format: PDF/ePub
Size:3.6MB
Page: 480
Price: Free

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