Slavery by Another Name - The Re enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World

Zusatztext “Shocking. . . . Eviscerates one of our schoolchildren's most basic assumptions: that slavery in America ended with the Civil War.” — The New York Times “An astonishing book. . . . It will challenge and change your understanding of what we were as Americans-and of what we are.” — Chicago Tribune “The genius of Blackmon's book is that it illuminates both the real human tragedy and the profoundly corrupting nature of the Old South slavery as it transformed to establish a New South social order.” — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A formidably researched! powerfully written! wrenchingly detailed narrative.” — St. Louis Post-Dispatch Informationen zum Autor Douglas A. Blackmon Klappentext This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in "The Age of Neoslavery."By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented Pulitzer Prize-winning account reveals the stories of those who fought unsuccessfully against the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the companies that profited most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.Following the Emancipation Proclamation, convicts-mostly black men-were "leased" through forced labor camps operated by state and federal governments. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history."An astonishing book. . . . It will challenge and change your understanding of what we were as Americans-and of what we are." -Chicago Tribune Chapter I The Wedding Fruits of Freedom Freedom wasn’t yet three years old when the wedding day came. Henry Cottinham and Mary Bishop had been chattel slaves until the momentous final days of the Civil War, as nameless in the eyes of the law as cows in the field. All their lives, they could no more have obtained a marriage license than purchased a horse, a wagon, or a train ticket to freedom in the North. Then a final furious sweep of Union soldiers—in a bewildering blur of liberation and terror unleashed from a distant war—ravaged the Cahaba River valley. Henry was suddenly a man. Mary was a woman, a slave girl no more. Here they stood, bride and groom, before John Wesley Starr, the coarse old preacher who a blink of an eye before had spent his Sundays teaching white people that slavery was the manifestation of a human order ordained by God, and preaching to black people that theirs was a glorified place among the chickens and the pigs. To most people along the Cahaba River, January 1868 hardly seemed an auspicious time to marry. It was raw, cold, and hungry. In every direction from the Cottingham Loop, the simple dirt road alongside which lived three generations of former slaves and their former owners, the land and its horizons were muted and bitter. The valley, the undulating hills of Bibb County, even the bridges and fords across the hundred-yard-wide Cahaba sweeping down from the last foothills of the Appalachians and into the flat fertile plains to the south, were still wrecked from the savage cavalry raids of Union Gen. James H. Wilson. Just two springs earlier, in April 1865, his horsemen had descended on Alabama in billowing swarms. The enfeebled southern army defending the state scattered before his advance. Even the great Confederate cavalry genius Nathan Bedford Forrest, his regiments eviscerated by four years of war, was swept aside with impunity. Wilson crushed the last functioning industrial complex of the Confederacy and left Alabama in a state of complete chaos. Not three years later, the valley remained a twisted ruin. Fallow fields. Burned barns. Machinery rusti...

List of contents

Table of Contents:
A Note on Language
Introduction: The Bricks We Stand On
PART ONE: THE SLOW POISON
I. THE WEDDING
Fruits of Freedom
II. AN INDUSTRIAL SLAVERY
"Niggers is cheap."
III. SLAVERY'S INCREASE
"Day after day we looked Death in the face & was afraid to speak."
IV. GREEN COTTENHAM'S WORLD
"The negro dies faster"
PART TWO: HARVEST OF AN UNFINISHED WAR
V. THE SLAVE FARM OF JOHN PACE
"I don't owe you anything."
VI. SLAVERY IS NOT A CRIME
"We shall have to kill a thousand...to get them back to their places."
VII. THE INDICTMENTS
"I was whipped nearly every day."
VIII. A SUMMER OF TRIALS
"The master treated the slave unmercifully."
IX. A RIVER OF ANGER
The South Is "an armed camp."
X. THE DISAPPROBATION OF GOD
"It is a very rare thing that a negro escapes."
XI. SLAVERY AFFIRMED
"Cheap cotton depends on cheap niggers."
XII. NEW SOUTH RISING
"This great corporation."
PART THREE: THE FINAL CHAPTER OF AMERICAN SLAVERY
XIII. THE ARREST OF GREEN COTTENHAM
A War of Atrocities
XIV. ANATOMY OF A SLAVE MINE
"Degraded to a plane lower than the brutes."
XV. EVERYWHERE WAS DEATH
"Negro Quietly Swung Up by an Armed Mob...All is quiet."
XVI. ATLANTA, THE SOUTH'S FINEST CITY
"I will murder you if you don't do that work."
XVII. FREEDOM
"in the United States on cannot sell himself"
EPILOGUE
The Ephemera of Catastrophe
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Report

Shocking. . . . Eviscerates one of our schoolchildren's most basic assumptions: that slavery in America ended with the Civil War.   The New York Times
An astonishing book. . . . It will challenge and change your understanding of what we were as Americans-and of what we are.   Chicago Tribune
The genius of Blackmon's book is that it illuminates both the real human tragedy and the profoundly corrupting nature of the Old South slavery as it transformed to establish a New South social order.   The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A formidably researched, powerfully written, wrenchingly detailed narrative.   St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Product details

• Authors: Douglas A Blackmon, Douglas A. Blackmon
• Publisher: Anchor Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.01.2009
• EAN: 9780385722704
• ISBN: 978-0-385-72270-4
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Anchor Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book