Slavery by Another Name : The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

from Jared_Runck

I feel compelled to admit that I struggled with rating this book. On one level, it is wonderfully well-written; on another, it tells some of the most horrific stories I've EVER read...stories that would rival and surpass many horror novels. And they are all true. Essentially, Blackmon tells in as...

from Robert_R._Mitchell

What Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee did for the so-called "Indian Wars," Douglas A Blackmon's Slavery By Another Name does for the period between Emancipation and World War II. We all know about the Emancipation Proclamation and the South's reaction: the Ku Klux Klan, sharecropping, the Poll Tax, ...

from dunyazade

This very important work, by the Wall Street Journal's Atlanta bureau chief, documents how slavery in fact continued for four generations after the Civil War, until World War II, when it became clear that Japan and Germany could have a propaganda field day with the treatment of African Americans....

from Narboink

Beyond excellent. What Blackmon refers to as the Age of Neoslavery has been poorly understood by generations of Americans - often willfully so. As someone who considered himself reasonably well informed about post-Reconstruction political realities and Jim Crow segregation, I found in "Slavery by...

from Narboink

Beyond excellent. What Blackmon refers to as the Age of Neoslavery has been poorly understood by generations of Americans - often willfully so. As someone who considered himself reasonably well informed about post-Reconstruction political realities and Jim Crow segregation, I found in "Slavery by...