![]() ![]() ![]() Guarded by bosses who used whips, “they were slaves in all but name.” Blackmon, who works for the Wall Street Journal, wanted to know what might be revealed if American corporations such as U.S. The county criminal justice system in eight southern states funded itself by arresting black men for vagrancy and other misdemeanors that were applied only to African-Americans, assessing them a fine they couldn’t pay, and then selling their labor to companies that paid the fine and put the defendants to work in coal mines, quarries and other places where conditions were harsh, disease rampant and the death rate high. ![]() Instead of freedom, they faced even worse animosity in the South and were the target of racially-charged legislation that kept them marginalized until World War II. Slavery by Another Name reveals the grim reality that – contrary to popular belief about the abolition of slavery – African Americans were still subject to forced labor without compensation after The Civil War, despite having passed the 13th Amendment. ![]()
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