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Author: Douglas A. Blackmon

📘 Slavery by another name by Douglas A. Blackmon

Douglas A. Blackmon’s *Slavery by Another Name* investigates how, after the Civil War, laws and loopholes enabled the systematic arrest, fine, and forced labor of tens of thousands of African Americans. Black reports that black prisoners were sold to work in coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries, and plantations, while Southern landowners and corporations—such as U.S. Steel—leased them for cheap labor. The book draws on a vast array of primary documents and personal accounts to reveal how this modern slavery persisted until the late 1940s, when wartime concerns about racial injustice began to end the practice. Blackmon’s study highlights the continued impact of this hidden crime on civil rights and race relations in the United States.

First publish date: 2008

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: Douglas A. Blackmon

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