Douglas A Blackmon

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1) Slavery by another name : the-re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

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A sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. From the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II, under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these "debts," prisoners were sold...

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Challenges one of America's most cherished assumptions, the belief that slavery in the U.S. ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, by telling the harrowing story of how, in the South, a new system of involuntary servitude took its place with shocking force.

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Douglas A Blackmon

1) Slavery by another name : the-re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

2) Slavery by another name