sheshe2
A
thread 1/4
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
By Douglas A. Blackmon
Under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested...
https://www.pulitzer.org/w...
05:24 PM - Jun 19, 2023
Avatar
0
3
1
sheshe2
A
thread 2/4
hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these ostensible “debts,” prisoners were sold as forced laborers to coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries, and farm plantations.

I read the book. It is a must read.
05:27 PM - Jun 19, 2023
1
0
sheshe2
A
thread 3/4
Thousands of other African Americans were simply seized by southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude. Government officials leased falsely imprisoned blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers, and dozens of corporations—including U.S. Steel—looking for cheap a
05:29 PM - Jun 19, 2023
1
0
sheshe2
A
thread 4/4
and abundant labor. 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.
05:30 PM - Jun 19, 2023
0
0

 

{{ notificationModalContent }} {{ promptModalMessage }}