The Wheel of Servitude - Black Forced Labor After Slavery

The institution has aroused surprisingly little interest in the past; this compelling account should do much to establish that peonage is one of the most severe and widespread violations of civil rights in the nation.

About the author

Daniel Novak is assistant professor of political science at State University of New York, Buffalo.

Summary

Even during Reconstruction, state legislatures passed laws that bound laborers to the landowner with a nearly unbreakable tie -- which still chains many a rural black to what a 1914 Supreme Court ruling called an "ever-turning wheel of servitude."

Product details

• Authors: Daniel A Novak, Daniel A. Novak
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2014
• EAN: 9780813154145
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-5414-5
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 195 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology