Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Douglas A. Blackmon
Bok · Engelsk · 2009
| Utgitt | New York : Anchor Books , 2009
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| Omfang | X, 468 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | 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 as forced laborers to coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries, and farm plantations. Thousands of other African Americans were simply seized and compelled into years of involuntary servitude. Armies of "free" black men labored without compensation, were repeatedly bought and sold, and were forced through beatings and physical torture to do the bidding of white masters for decades after the official abolition of American slavery.--
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| Emner | African American prisoners - Social conditions.
African Americans - Civil rights - History African Americans - Crimes against - History. African Americans - Employment - History. Vis mer... Convict labor - History. - United States
Forced labor - History. - United States Slavery - History. - United States Afrikansk-amerikanere Borgerrettigheter Etniske relasjoner Levekår Slaveri Tvangsarbeid afroamerikanere borgerrettigheter slaveri historie usa |
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| ISBN | 9780385722704
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