Book description
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black
Americans. In this  precise and eloquent work' Â- as described in its
Pulitzer Prize citation Â- Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of
the most shameful chapters in American history Â- an  Age of
Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the
dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and
personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and
their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation
Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude
thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented
account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most
from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates
today. Â Urgent, definitive, powerful. The most important work of
history published in a very long time.' Bill Cosby. In  Slavery by
Another Nameâ Douglas A. Blackmon eviscerates one of our
schoolchildren's most basic assumptions: that slavery in America ended
with the Civil War. Mr. Blackmon unearths shocking evidence that the
practice persisted well into the 20th century.' New York Times.
'Urgent, definitive, powerful. The most important work of history
published in a very long time.' Bill Cosby In "Slavery by Another
Name" Douglas A. Blackmon eviscerates one of our schoolchildren's
most basic assumptions: that slavery in America ended with the Civil
War. Mr. Blackmon unearths shocking evidence that the practice persisted
well into the 20th century.' New York Times 'Excellent ... deeply
harrowing' -- Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Douglas Blackmon was the
Atlanta Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal until 2009 and then
became the journal's Senior national Correspondent.
