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Douglas A. Blackmon Livres

    Douglas A. Blackmon est un auteur américain lauréat du prix Pulitzer, dont l'œuvre précise et éloquente met au jour des chapitres oubliés de l'histoire américaine. Il examine méticuleusement des systèmes délibérés d'oppression raciale, sauvant d'innombrables atrocités de l'obscurité. L'écriture de Blackmon se concentre sur la récupération de récits oubliés et la compréhension des mécanismes de servitude involontaire qui ont persisté jusqu'au XXe siècle. Son œuvre apporte une contribution essentielle à la compréhension d'un passé complexe et de son impact durable.

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

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

      • 468pages
      • 17 heures de lecture
      4,5(420)Évaluer

      A 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.

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