Slavery by What Other Name?
Ask any student of American history what year the enslavement of African Americans ended in the United States and she or he will answer with cheerful confidence, "1865." Ask that same question of author Douglas A. Blackmon, who recently picked up a very cool 2009 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for his book Slavery by Another Name, and he will suggest a different date: "I ...
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It would be nice if evil could be erradicated with the stroke of a presidential pen...but it seems that evil and evil practices die hard. I have long shared the opinion that post civil war sharecropping was slavery--just under another name.
--John