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Slavery by Another Name The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II In this groundbreaking historical exposé, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history—an “Age of Neoslavery” that thrived 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 ostensible “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 by southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude. Government officials leased falsely imprisoned blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers, and dozens of corporations—including U.S. Steel—looking for cheap and abundant labor. Armies of “free” black men labored without compensation, were repeatedly bought and sold, …. This was being discussed today on NPR's Talk of the Nation I wasn't going to bring it up, but a comment on another thread about how some people are always playing the victim card made me throw up into my mouth a little bit. Are members of the "why don't they just get over it" crowd stupid, willfully ignorant, or just plain goddam evil?
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