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001 2009293876
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005 20090401085049.0
008 090323r20092008nyua b 001 0 eng d
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100 1 $aBlackmon, Douglas A.
245 10 $aSlavery by another name :$bthe re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II /$cDouglas A. Blackmon.
250 $a1st Anchor Books ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAnchor Books,$c2009.
300 $ax, 468 p. :$bill. ;$c21 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: New York : Doubleday, 2008.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [444]-459) and index.
520 $aA 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.--From publisher description.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xEmployment$xHistory.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xCrimes against$xHistory.
650 0 $aAfrican American prisoners$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aForced labor$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aConvict labor$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aSlavery$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0907/2009293876-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0907/2009293876-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0907/2009293876-s.html