false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255945209m/2319745.jpg 2319745 3 <p>In this groundbreaking book, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history. From the late 1870s through the mid-twentieth century, under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, thousands of African American men were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for room and board in state and county jails. With no means to pay these &#8220;debts,&#8221; prisoners were required to work them off. Thousands of other African Americans were simply seized by landowners and forced into unpaid labor. In an iniquitous system, governments leased wrongly imprisoned blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers, and large corporations&#8212;including U.S. Steel&#8212;looking for cheap and abundant labor. In factories, mines, lumber camps, quarries, and on farms throughout the South, armies of "free" black men labored without compensation, were repeatedly bought and sold, and forced through extreme physical coercion to do the bidding of white masters. Revenues from neo-slavery poured into Southern state treasuries. The system was finally ended only in the 1940s, partly due to fears of enemy propaganda about American racial abuse at the beginning of World War II. <br><br>Based on a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME is a moving, sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of white racism that reverberates today.</p> 2326265 25 3 2008 Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II total:139|5:62|4:47|3:26|2:4|1:0| 139 584 511 59 4 1 false false Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 11:06:18 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 11:07:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 23:22:20 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 23:27:44 -0700 2009 The Bloody Shirt, about the vicious Southern campaign to destroy any semblance of progress, which started about three minutes after the Civil War en...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun May 10 08:36:42 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 08:55:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 11:19:32 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 14:59:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 07:56:16 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 21:01:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 05 08:33:39 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 08:38:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 13:22:39 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 09:59:18 -0700 2008 still giving it five stars. It was that amazing.]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 21:26:54 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 22:19:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 10:50:05 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 11:03:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jun 05 22:36:39 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 22:44:15 -0700 2009 podcast (OnPoint with Tom Ashbrook) interview between Tom Ashbrook and the author, Douglas Blackmon. This book just won the Pulitzer Prize in non fiction (2009).

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http://slaverybyanothername.com/excerpt Excerpt (from the book's Web site)

Some reviews:
The Moderate Voice

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I saw this author interviewed on Bill Moyers Journal last summer. You can watch the interview here.

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