Doubleday. Slavery by Another Name is a moving, sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. Blackmon argues that slavery in the United Statesdid not end with the Civil War, … Biography. Slavery by Another Name follows the life of Green Cottenham who was arrested on March 30, 1908 by the sheriff of Selby County, Alabama, and charged with “vagrancy” and in walking in his footsteps author Blackmon shared what he’d learned about the politics of the day and how those politics and slavery were synonymous then as they are today. Anyone who thinks otherwise should indulge in reading it. As financial incentives for the Southern states faded, political scandals and abuse outrages gained $29.95. Douglas A. Blackmon is the Atlanta Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal. In our humble opinion “Slavery by Another Name” doesn’t focus on anti-white rhetoric, but on social justice. It is probably second in line to The Rape of Nanking by the late Iris Chang, about Japanese atrocities in 1937 during its invasion and occupation of that city.
It was a shocking reality that often went unacknowledged, then and now: A huge system of forced, unpaid labor, mostly affecting Southern black men, that lasted until World War II. Overview. Slavery by Another Name is one of the most difficult books I have read in my life. 13th Amendment Summary: The Prison of Slavery By the 1920s, civil rights groups and labor unions were demanding that the convict lease system be ended. Let’s assume that you’ve heard about his fight against the Apartheid and which granted him 27 Years in Prison. It explores the forced labor of prisoners, overwhelmingly African American men, through the convict lease system used by states, local governments, white farmers, and corporations after the American Civil War until World War II in the southern United States. Photo: Michael A. Schwartz Photography. Written by journalist Douglas Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II is a searing and thorough account of the “new” form of slavery that continues throughout much of the South in the decades after the Civil War. —from the book jacket. If the name Nelson Mandela doesn’t ring any bells, then you are not of this Planet.
Slavery By Another Name The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War IIBy Douglas A. Blackmon468 pages. Questions? How did it end? This book bears a different name, but it’s written with an equally powerful purpose. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II is a book by American writer Douglas A. Blackmon, published by Anchor Books in 2008.