There was no acknowledgment of the effects of cycle upon cycle of malevolent defeat, of the injury of seeing one generation rise above the cusp of poverty only to be indignantly crushed, of the impact of repeating tsunamis of violence and obliterated opportunities on each new generation of an ever-changing population outnumbered in persons and resources. Blackmon unearths shocking evidence that the practice persisted well into the 20th century. Directed by Sam Pollard, produced by Catherine Allan and Douglas Blackmon and written by Sheila Curran-Bernard, “Slavery by Another Name” shines a light on the injustices occurring after African Americans were freed, specifically in the South. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has created a documentary based on Blackmon's book. Henry was suddenly a man. Slavery By Another Name The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War IIBy Douglas A. Blackmon468 pages. In our humble opinion “Slavery by Another Name” doesn’t focus on anti-white rhetoric, but on social justice.
― Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.
Local law enforcement and officials were involved in the money games and not about to pursue prosecutions of those participating in unjust convictions. “When white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Mar 2008, 480 pages His grandfather, once a coal miner himself, had told him stories of a similar burial field near the family home place south of Birmingham.”, “Underscoring southerners’ sense that it was hypocritical for their region to be targeted for its racial misdeeds, residents in Belleville, Illinois, went on a rampage a day after the Dadeville editorial appeared. Its outcome was promising, but there were loopholes. He writes of how the emancipation of slaves left Southern plantations "not just financially but intellectually bereft" because the slaves' knowledge and experience could be indispensable; how the rise of industry reshaped the South; how a new generation of African-Americans who had not known slavery found themselves threatened by it; how slavery intersected with efforts to unionize labor; and even how, once blacks lost their voting rights but still had clout at the Republican convention, they were strategically important to President Theodore Roosevelt's 1904 election campaign. Reader Reviews, In this haunting parable of the American West, a young woman faces the violent past of her remote Montana valley. It overlooked many of the most significant dimensions of the new forced labor, including the centrality of its role in the web of restrictions put in place to suppress black citizenship, its concomitant relationship to debt peonage and the worst forms of sharecropping, and an exponentially larger number of African Americans compelled into servitude through the most informal—and tainted—local courts.”, “A world in which the seizure and sale of a black man—even a black child—was viewed as neither criminal nor extraordinary had reemerged. Wyatt was seized from his cell and his head immediately smashed.
Slavery by Another Name SubjectAfrican-American history, disfranchisement after Reconstruction era GenreNon-fiction PublisherAnchor Books Publication date 2008 Pages468 pp. By the end of the 1850s, a vigorous practice of slave leasing was already a fixture of southern life. The book's jacket recommends a visit to www.slaverybyanothername.com for images, primary research materials, and interviews. Wyatt, an educated and imposing man—standing six feet three inches tall—waited in his cell on the second floor of the jail, enveloped in the cacophony of the hammers pounding out his death beat.
Blackmon's way of organizing this material is to bookend his legal and historical chronicle with the personal story of Green Cottenham, a black man born free in the mid-1880s. Every direct quotation comes from a sworn statement or a record documented at the time.”, “the account of how a form of American slavery persisted into the twentieth century, embraced by the U.S. economic system and abided at all levels of government, offered a concrete answer to that fear for the first time.”, “What would be revealed if American corporations were examined through the same sharp lens of historical confrontation as the one then being trained on German corporations that relied on Jewish slave labor during World War II and the Swiss banks that robbed victims of the Holocaust of their fortunes?”, “Speaking to a gathering of prominent black writers and thinkers on the twentieth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1883, Frederick Douglass, the aging black leader of pre-Civil War years, lamented that despite the bloody sacrifice of black soldiers in the fight for liberation, "in all relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.
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Fruits of Freedom Blackmon writes of whites reaching for profits in farming, mining and other industrial endeavors by exploiting the labor of black men denied their freedom by trickery – by arrests on trumped up charges. Repeatedly, the timing and scale of surges in arrests appeared more attuned to rises and dips in the need for cheap labor than any demonstrable acts of crime.”, “1900, the South’s judicial system had been wholly reconfigured to make one of its primary purposes the coercion of African Americans to comply with the social customs and labor demands of whites. Or we are tainted by the failures of our fathers to fulfill our national credos when their courage was most needed.
"38”, “compelled to help arm the troops fighting to preserve his enslavement.”, “African Americans had been compelled to work in Alabama mines prior to the Great Depression. Those charges turned out not to be applicable in Alabama. It is not our “fault.” But it is undeniably our inheritance.”, “Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.”, “In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the civil rights movement has been delusion.”, “Unlike the victims of the Jewish Holocaust, who were on the whole literate, comparatively wealthy, and positioned to record for history the horror that enveloped them, Cottenham and his peers had virtually no capacity to preserve their memories or document their destruction. An unforgettable epic shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, and named a best book of the year by the New York Times. Sites like SparkNotes with a Slavery by Another Name study guide or cliff notes. Reviews | Still more went for gasoline and benzene.
BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. The entombed there are utterly mute, the fact of their existence as fragile as a scent in wind.”, “Instead of evidence showing black crime waves, the original records of county jails indicated thousands of arrests for inconsequential charges or for violations of laws specifically written to intimidate blacks—changing employers without permission, vagrancy, riding freight cars without a ticket, engaging in sexual activity—or loud talk—with white women. Alabama was among the Southern states that profitably leased convicts to private businesses. Start studying Slavery By Another Name Chapter 2 (COMPLETE). By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented 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. All rights reserved. Let’s assume that you’ve heard about his fight against the Apartheid and which granted him 27 Years in Prison. Save Download. We are formed in molds twisted by the gifts we received at the expense of others. Reformers were dealing with "a constitutional limbo in which slavery as a legal concept was prohibited by the Constitution, but no statute made an act of enslavement explicitly illegal.".
Bastardy, gambling, changing employers without permission, false pretense, "selling cotton after sunset": these were all grounds for arrest in rural Alabama by 1890. Blackmon, who was reared in the Mississippi Delta and is now the Atlanta bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, must set forth a huge chunk of history. Just $12 for 3 months or
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. Author Freedom wasnt yet three years old when the wedding day came.
He describes free men and women forced into industrial servitude, bound by chains, faced with subhuman living conditions and subject to physical torture. We found no such entries for this book title. Blackmon's critique extends from the exploitation of slaves during the Civil War to the beginning of World War II.
Black Americans were exchanged for a sense of white security.”, “It also became apparent how inextricably this quasi-slavery of the twentieth century was rooted in the nascent industrial slavery that had begun to flourish in the last years before the Civil War. His reign had also seen the brutal suppression of the first great Roman slave revolt, in which on one occasion more than twenty thousand rebelling slaves were crucified.”, “Bibb Steam Mill Company also introduced to the county the ruthless form of industrial slavery that would become so important as the Civil War loomed. 0 likes.
An altercation ensued. And he is not simply referring to the virtual bondage of black sharecroppers unable to extricate themselves economically from farming. (pp.