Slavery is not a crime : "We shall have to kill a thousand. The slave farm of John Pace : "I don't owe you anything" Green Cottenham's world : "The negro dies faster" Slavery's increase : "Day after day we looked death in the face & was afraid to speak" An industrial slavery : "Niggers is cheap" 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. Thousands of other African Americans were simply seized and compelled into years of involuntary servitude. With no means to pay these "debts," prisoners were sold as forced laborers to coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries, and farm plantations. 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. 25 cm.Ī sobering account of a little-known crime against African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today. Broken link? let us search Trove, the Wayback Machine, or Google for you.
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